Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1347. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUSTRIA, Holy Roman Empire. Leopold V. Archduke, 1619-1632. AR Doppeltaler. Marriage of Leopold V and Claudia de Medici issue. Hall mint. Undated (1635). (quadrate stop) LEOPOLDVS • ARCHID : AVS : ET • CLAVDIA • ARCHIDVCISA • AVS : MEDIC, conjoined, crowned, and collared busts of Archduke Leopold V and Claudia de Medici right / DVX BVRGVNDIÆ COMES TIROLIS (winged single and double quadrate stops), crowned eagle facing, head left, with wings displayed; crowned wreath above; all within laurel wreath and reeded border. Moser & Tursky 487; Davenport 3332. In an NGC oversized slab graded MS 61.

Claudia, from the influential Medici family, moved to Austria and married Archduke Leopold V in 1626. The two sovereigns founded a sideline of the Habsburg dynasty that ruled over the prosperous Alpine duchy of Further Austria. Their base was at Innsbruck, capital of the silver-rich county of Tirol, not far from the Hall mint where this coin was produced. Leopold and Claudia’s two sons, Ferdinand Karl and Sigismund Franz, ruled the duchy until 1665, when Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I incorporated it into his own holdings after the death of Sigismund.