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1/4 Ducat Siege coinage
| Issuer | Vienna, City of |
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| Year | 1529 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Irregular square klippe flan with a bold five-line Latin inscription filling the entire field, reading T / VRCK / BLEGERT / WIEN / 1529, meaning 'The Turk besieges Vienna, 1529.' The lettering is large and roughly executed in the hammered tradition of siege emergency coinage, with the date 1529 at the base. The inscription directly references the Ottoman siege of Vienna under Suleiman the Magnificent, making this piece a historically significant numismatic document of that event. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1529 - 15Z9 |
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