Leopold I 's life

Lipót I ascended the Hungarian throne in 1657, then succeeded his father, III. He also succeeded Ferdinand on the Habsburg throne.

He introduced open absolutism and abolished the Hungarian order constitution. In 1686, he liberated Hungary from nearly one and a half hundred years of Turkish subjugation. A few years later, in 1690, he took the independence of Transylvania and annexed the territory to his own empire. He died in 1705. He was succeeded on the throne by his eldest son József I.

During the reign of Leopold I, a silver thaler or its bill of exchange, the krajcár, was also used in cash circulation.

Lipót I operated his mint in several cities of the empire: Körmöcbány, Bratislava, Vienna, Kassa, Nagybány and Prague. On the coat-of-arms side of the coins, it was indicated in which mint it was made, and on the other side there is usually a portrait of the ruler, which was continuously developed over time.