WORLD COINS, TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, The House of Habsburg. Charles VI (1685-1711-1740). The Siege and Capture of Temesvar and Belgrade, 1717. And Victory over the Turks, Copper Medal, undated, 46 mm, 42.2g, by Ottone Hamerani. Laureate bust of of the Emperor right, signed with full name. Rev. River Gods offer mural crowns to Victory, amidst military trophies, PATET ORIENS, tablet reads, TEMES VAR ET BELGRADO EXPVGN. (Mont 1516; BDM II, 408. Plain edge). Extremely rare. About extremely fine.
ex Baldwin's Auction 46, 4 May 2006, lot 2338.
The medal was struck in Rome and the City name ROMÆ appears in the exergue on the medal's reverse.
Estimate: $ 1,200