197, Lot: 198. Estimate $750. Sold for $725. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUSTRIA, Holy Roman Empire. Leopold V. Archduke, 1619-1632. AR Doppeltaler (47mm, 57.21 g, 11h). Marriage of Leopold V and Claudia de Medici issue. Hall mint. Conjoined, crowned, and collared busts of Archduke Leopold V and Claudia de Medici right / Crowned eagle facing, head left, with wings displayed; crowned wreath above. Moser & Tursky 487; Davenport 3332. Good VF, obverse scratch.

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.