15 kreuzer 1661

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hello
could you help me identify this coin?
5.46 grams and around 29 mm.

Notice the reverse is different on this one: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces37430.html
I found this, Hope it helps some. Link is at bottom.

Country  H.R.E. Austria.  

 
Reign  Leopold I (1657-1705).
Denomination  15 Kreuzer
Date Struck  1661 CA
 
Mint  Vienna
Obv:  Laureate draped and cuirsassed bust right, value in Roman below.
Rev:  Crowned Imperial Arms , mint mark below.
Weight  6.28�gm.
Diameter  29�mm
Reference  KM#1170

 Historical Info:
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (name in full: Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician; Hungarian: I. Lip�t) Habsburg (June 9, 1640 � May 5, 1705), Holy Roman emperor, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, was the second son of the emperor Ferdinand III and his first wife Maria Anna of Spain. His maternal grandparents were Philip III of Spain and Margarita of Austria. He was also a first cousin of his rival, Louis XIV. He was a younger brother of Ferdinand IV of Hungary and Mariana of Austria. Intended for the Church, he received a good education but his prospects were changed by the death of his elder brother Ferdinand IV, on July 9, 1654 of smallpox, when he became his father's heir. Leopold was physically unprepossessing. Short and sickly, he had inherited the Habsburg lip to a degree unusual even in his inbred family. Historian William Coxe described Leopold in the following manner: "His gait was stately, slow and deliberate; his air pensive, his address awkward, his manner uncouth, his disposition cold and phlegmatic." Holy Roman Emperor In 1655, he was chosen king of Hungary and, in 1656, king of Bohemia, while Leopold gained the crown of Croatia in 1657. In July 1658, more than a year after his father's death, he was elected emperor at Frankfurt in spite of the intrigues of Jules Cardinal Mazarin, who wished to place on the imperial throne Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria or some other prince whose elevation would break the Habsburg succession. Mazarin, however, obtained a promise from the new emperor that he would not send assistance to Spain, then at war with France, and, by joining a confederation of German princes, called the league of the Rhine, France secured a certain influence in the internal affairs of Germany. Leopold's long reign covers one of the most important periods of European history; for nearly the whole of its forty-seven years he was pitted against Louis XIV of France, whose dominant personality completely overshadowed Leopold. The emperor was not himself a man of war, and never led his troops in person; yet the greater part of his public life was spent in arranging and directing wars. The first was with Sweden, whose king Charles X found a useful ally in the prince of Transylvania, Gy�rgy II R�k�czi, a rebellious vassal of the Hungarian crown.

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I will leave this info, but as I read it now, That place has the wrong picture for the wrong coin hahaha. sorry, Wish I could have helped. the picture is of your coin, but the description is not.
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