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1 Poltura - Leopold I
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1695-1703 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | LEOPOLD · D · G · R · I · S · A · G · H · B · REX · (Translation: Leopoldus Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus Germaniae Hungariae Bohemiae Rex - Leopold, by the grace of God Emperor of the Romans, Always August, King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia.) |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts the Madonna and Child (Patrona Hungariae) enthroned, shown facing front with the Virgin Mary seated and holding the Christ Child, a common devotional motif on Hungarian coinage of the period. Flanking the Madonna figure are the mint master's initials · P · H · The denomination POLTURA is inscribed in large letters across the middle field, with the date · 1696 · appearing in the lower portion of the coin. The composition reflects the deep Marian iconographic tradition promoted under Habsburg rule in the Kingdom of Hungary. |
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The poltura — a small-denomination silver struck for Hungarian circulation — proliferated under Leopold I during a period of near-continuous military and political crisis. The kingdom was simultaneously fighting Ottoman forces in the south and suppressing the Thököly-led kuruc uprising in the east, leaving the imperial treasury perpetually strained. These pressures pushed mint output toward lightweight, high-volume coinage, and quality control across the Kremnitz, Nagybánya, and Pozsony facilities was inconsistent enough that multiple KM numbers are required to distinguish the resulting varieties.