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| Origin/Country: |
ITALY - PRE- NAPOLEONIC |
| Item Description: |
10PAO 1776 TUSCANY DAV-1514 24.1 |
| Full Grade: |
NGC F 12 |
| Owner: |
World_Coin_Nut |
Owner Comments:
Obverse: Bust right
Obverse Legend: P L E O P O L D V S D G ....
Reverse: Crowned shield with spikes in order chain
Ruler: Pietro Leopoldo
Note: Dav. #1514.
Composition: Silver
Fineness: 0.9170
Weight: 27.5000g
ASW: 0.8107oz
Leopold II (German: Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard; Italian: Pietro Leopoldo Giuseppe Antonio Gioacchino Pio Gottardo; English: Peter Leopold Joseph Anthony Joachim Pius Godehard; 5 May 1747 – 1 March 1792), was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792, Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was a son of Emperor Francis I and his wife, Empress Maria Theresa, thus the brother of Marie Antoinette. Leopold was a moderate proponent of enlightened absolutism.
Leopold was born in Vienna, the third son, and was at first educated for the priesthood, but the theological studies to which he was forced to apply himself are believed to have influenced him against the Church.