Vin Mariani
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Vin Mariani was a coca wine and patent medicine created in the 1860s by Angelo Mariani, a French chemist from the island of Corsica. Mariani became intrigued with coca and its medical and economic pot
Advertising bill for the wine Mariani, lithograph of Jules Chéret, 1894
Pope Leo XIII purportedly carried a hipflask of Vin Mariani with him, and awarded a Vatican gold medal to Angelo Mariani.
Vin Mariani medal by Louis-Oscar Roty
Medal of Coca Mariani wine