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Auction 40  11 January 2017
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Lot 1491

Estimate: 450 USD
Price realized: 480 USD
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WORLD COINS, TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, The House of Habsburg. Leopold I, the Hogmouth (1657-1705). The Siege and Liberation of Ofen (Buda), 1686, Copper Medal, 40 mm, Plain edge, 24.4g, by Georg Hautsch and Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer.Imperial crown above the panoramic city landscape, circular legend above crown HOS FORNAX ARDET IN USUS, some troops relaxing by cooking pot to the front. Rev. Legend in twelve lines, : OFEN, / DIE KÖNIGLICHE / HAUPTSTADT IN HUNGARN, / A.1526.NACH K.LUDW.DES II.TOD / VON SOLYMAN EINGENOMMEN, / A.1529. DEM WEYWODEN IOHANN / ÜBERLASSEN, UND A.1541.VON / SOLYMAN MIT BETRUG BEHAUPT./ FOLGENDS VON R.K.M.LEOPOLD / D.23 AUG./2 SEPT.A.1686.DEN TÜRKEN / MIT STÜRMENDERHAND / ENTRISSEN. (Dogan 6189; Mont 1008; Julius 281; Palmanova 125; Huszàr 478; Welzl 7273; Baldwin's Auction 37, lot 1903). Sharply struck, with original redness. Extremely fine.

ex Baldwin's Auction 46, 4 May 2006, lot 2328.

Estimate: $ 450
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