Triton XIV, Lot: 1206. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUSTRIA, Holy Roman Empire. Leopold V. Archduke, 1619-1632. AR Doppeltaler (47mm, 56.86 g, 12h). Hall mint. Undated (1635). LEOPOLDVS • ARCHID : AVS : ET • CLAVDIA • ARCHIDVCISA • AVS : MEDIC, conjoined crowned and collared busts of Leopold and Claudia de Medici right / DVX • BVRGVNDIÆ • COMES • TIROLIS :, crowned eagle facing, head left, wings displayed; wreath above. Moser & Tursky 487; Davenport 3332. EF, evenly toned. A very high grade, well struck example.

From the HLT Collection.

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.