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1 Argenteus - Aureus Magnus Prince Eugene
| Issuer | Germany, Federal Republic of |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Value | 1 Argenteus |
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| Obverse lettering | EUGENIUS PRINC AUSTRIA 1663 1963 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Prince Eugene of Savoy served the Habsburg cause for decades, defeating the Ottomans at Zenta in 1697 and co-commanding with Marlborough at Blenheim in 1704, yet he died in Austrian service and was never a German national figure in any strict sense. His appearance on a 1963 Federal Republic issue reflects the postwar West German tendency to claim broad pan-Germanic cultural heroes as shared patrimony — a politically useful framing during the Cold War division of the country.