E-auction 42-16847 - fre_318131 - HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - AUSTRIA - LEOPOLD I 3 Kreuzer 1670 Vienne

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - AUSTRIA - LEOPOLD I 3 Kreuzer 1670 Vienne XF

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Estimate :	70 €
Price :	36 €
Maximum bid :	38 €
End of the sale :	03 February 2014 17:11:00
bidders :	5 bidders

Type : 3 Kreuzer

Date: 1670

Mint name / Town : Vienne

Quantity minted : -

Metal : billon

Diameter : 21,9 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 1,64 g.

Edge : lisse

Catalogue references :

KM/WC.17/1855

Obverse

Obverse legend : (ROSE) LEOPOLDVS. D. G. R. I. - .S. A. G. H. B. REX., (PONCTUATION PAR UN SIMPLE LOSANGE).

Obverse description : Buste de Léopold Ier à droite, lauré et cuirassé et portant l'Ordre de la Toison d'or ; au-dessous 3 dans un cartouche coupant la légende à 7 heures.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ARCHID. AVS - (CARTOUCHE AVEC (MM) - DVX. B. CO. TVR. 16-70..

Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale portant en cœur un écu mi-parti au 1 d'Autriche, au 2 de Bourgogne ancien, sous une couronne impériale coupant la légende en haut.

Historical background

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - AUSTRIA - LEOPOLD I

(1658-05/05/1705)

Leopold I was born in Vienna on June 8, 1640 from the union of Ferdinand III and Marie-Anne, daughter of Philip III of Spain. He had to fight the Turks and owed the safeguard of Vienna only to the intervention of the King of Poland Jean Sobieski in 1682. He launched a counter-offensive which enabled him to recover Hungary, Transylvania and Banat, but he experienced several defeats against the troops of Louis XIV who forced him to sign the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678 and that of Ryswick in 1697. During the War of the Spanish Succession, Charles I allied himself with England and The Netherlands. He died in Vienna on May 5, 1705 and his son Joseph I succeeded him..