fwo_502971 - HUNGARY - KINGDOM OF HUNGARY - LEOPOLD I 15 Kreuzer 1677 Kremnitz
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Type : 15 Kreuzer
Date: 1677
Mint name / Town : Kremnitz
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30,2 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,28 g.
Edge : lisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : +LEOPOLD. D. G. R. - XV - I. S. A. G. H. B. R. REX.
Obverse description : Grand buste lauré de Léopold Ier, cuirassé et drapé, à droite avec la grande perruque et le collier de l'ordre de la Toison d'or.
Obverse translation : (Léopold, par la grâce de Dieu, empereur romain, toujours auguste, roi de Germanie, de Hongrie et Bohême).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PATRONA. HUN - GARIAE. 1677.
Reverse translation : (Patronne de la Hongrie).
Historical background
HUNGARY - KINGDOM OF HUNGARY - LEOPOLD I
(1657-1705)
Leopold I (1640-1705) succeeded his father, Ferdinand III in 1657. He had to face the Turkish threat. Vienna was again besieged and liberated by the relief army commanded by John III Sobieski. Kremnitz was on the border of the Empire. When he died in 1705, Hungary went into rebellion and Joseph I, his eldest son, succeeded him..
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