This piece is one of several "Aureus Magnus" issues produced by the private Hamburg firm Hütten & Rausch during the early 1960s, sold directly to collectors rather than circulated as legal tender. Prince Eugene of Savoy — the subject here — was the Habsburg field marshal whose victories at Zenta in 1697 and Blenheim in 1704 fundamentally checked Ottoman and French expansion into Central Europe. The Federal Republic never authorized these as official coinage; they occupy the grey zone between commemorative medal and coin that German private minters exploited aggressively in that decade.
This piece is one of several "Aureus Magnus" issues produced by the private Hamburg firm Hütten & Rausch during the early 1960s, sold directly to collectors rather than circulated as legal tender. Prince Eugene of Savoy — the subject here — was the Habsburg field marshal whose victories at Zenta in 1697 and Blenheim in 1704 fundamentally checked Ottoman and French expansion into Central Europe. The Federal Republic never authorized these as official coinage; they occupy the grey zone between commemorative medal and coin that German private minters exploited aggressively in that decade.