Commemorative Medals, Foreign Medals, Hungary, Ludwig II (1506-1516-1526) and Maria von Habsburg (1505-1558), the Battle of Mohacs against the Turks, 1526, and death of Ludwig, cast medal, in pewter, 1531-1535 by Christoph Fuessl, busts of Ludwig and Maria vis-à-vis, legend in 5 lines below, rev. the King, mounted and in full armour, at the head of his army, facing a Turkish cavalry charge, legend in six lines below, LVDO HVNG BOEM ZC REX ANN AGENS XX INTVRCAS APVD MOHAZ CVN PARVA SVORVM MANV PVGNAS HONESTE OBYT MD XXVI, 44mm. (Domanig: 698; Horsky 727; J. Schillerová, The Medal, 10 (1986), p. 2, fig. 2), a cast of uncertain date but excellent quality, good very fine
*ex Baldwin's vault
Ludwig II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, who was killed at the Battle of Mohacs, had married Maria von Habsburg in 1522.
(100-150 GBP)