1516, Austria, Emperor Maximilian I. Rare Silver Batzen (Leopolder) Coin. NGC VF+

Mint Year: 1516
Mint Place: St. Veit
Reference: Schulten 3981. var.
Denomination: Batzem (Leopolder)
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as VF (Details: Cleaned!)
Diameter: 26mm
Material. Silver
Weight: 3.3gm

Obverse: NImbate figure of Saint Leopold, holding flag of Lower Austria and Model of Church. Legend around, terminated by shields of Lower Austria and Vienna/House of Habsburg.
Legend: S . LEOPOL (shield of Vienna/House of Habsburg) DVS . 1518

Reverse: Ducal crown on shield of Carinthia above shields of Styria and Krain. within polylobe. All within inner circle. Legend around.
Legend: * GROSSVS . KARINTHIE . (the dot engraved over a mistakenly engraved "E") *

Leopold III (German: Luitpold, 1073 – 15 November 1136), known as Leopold the Good, was the Margrave of Austria from 1095 to his death in 1136. He was a member of the House of Babenberg. He was canonized on 6 January 1485 and became the patron saint of Austria, Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Vienna. His feast day is 15 November.

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Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death. He was never crowned by the pope, as the journey to Rome was always too risky. He was instead proclaimed emperor elect by Pope Julius II at Trent, thus breaking the long tradition of requiring a Papal coronation for the adoption of the Imperial title. Maximilian was the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, and Eleanor of Portugal. He ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of the latter's reign, from c. 1483 until his father's death in 1493.

Maximilian expanded the influence of the House of Habsburg through war and his marriage in 1477 to Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy, though he also lost his family's original lands in today's Switzerland to the Swiss Confederacy. Through marriage of his son Philip the Handsome to eventual queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian helped to establish the Habsburg dynasty in Spain, which allowed his grandson Charles to hold the thrones of both Castile and Aragon.

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