Live auction - fwo_413054 - HUNGARY - KINGDOM OF HUNGARY - LEOPOLD I Thaler 1696 Kremnitz
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| Estimate : | 350 € |
| Price : | 220 € |
| Maximum bid : | 230 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 January 2017 16:54:28 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Thaler
Date: 1696
Mint name / Town : Kremnitz
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 875 ‰
Diameter : 46 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,41 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Ce thaler présente une petite usure au revers avec un superbe avers et un portrait expressif de Léopold Ier. Le flan est légèrement voilé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LEOPOLDVS (VIERGE À L’ENFANT) D. G: ROM: IMP. S+ A (ÉCU COURONNÉ) GE: HV: BO: 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 : +ARCHIDVX: AVS: DVX: BVR: MAR: MOR: CO: TYR: 16-96.
Reverse description : Écu à cinq quartiers, couronné, sur le tout un petit écu du Tyrol entouré du collier de l'ordre de la Toison d'or dont le bijou coupe la légende en bas brochant sur une aigle bicéphale nimbée et couronnée tenant une épée et un sceptre.
Reverse translation : (archiduc d’Autriche, duc de Bourgogne, margrave de Moravie, comte de Tyrol).
Commentary
Ce type de thaler fut frappé à Hall de 1694 à 1696 puis de nouveau en 1698-1700.
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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