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Leopold II's reign

Leopold II 's life

II. Leopold (Vienna, Austria, German-Roman Empire, May 5, 1747 – Vienna, Austria, German-Roman Empire, March 1, 1792) was Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792 between. Prior to that, he was the Grand Duke of Tuscany for nearly twenty-five years between 1765 and 1790. He was the third son of Empress Mária Theresia and German-Roman Emperor Ferenc I. His brothers included the later II. Emperor Joseph, as well as Maria Carolina of Naples and Queen Marie Antoinette of France. In 1761, after the death of his brother, Archduke Joseph Károly, he became the heir to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and at the same time he received the hand of his brother's betrothed, the daughter of the King of Spain, Maria Ludovika. Their marriage took place in 1765, and over the years the couple had a total of sixteen children, just like their parents. The later main and three additional branches of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine came from their descendants: the Tuscan, Teschen and Hungarian palatine branches. During Florence's reign, he made Tuscany a model state of enlightened absolutism. He opposed and was the first to abolish both the death penalty and torture in an unusual way for his time. After his brother, the emperor, died without an heir in 1790, he became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In the Habsburg Empire and Hungary, he quickly began to withdraw elements of Josephinism in order to create internal peace. Fearing the spread of the ideas of the French Revolution, he expanded the secret police successfully used in Tuscany throughout the empire. 1792. died on March 1 (aged 44) in Vienna, Austria, German-Roman Empire.

Leopold II Coinage

Leopold II. (1747-1792) was the ruler of the Habsburg Empire and king of Hungary between 1790 and 1792. During his reign, various types of money were minted in the empire, including silver and copper coins. Leopold II's early coinage included thalers and silver tizenkrajcárs, silver minted in various regions of the empire. These coins generally represented the higher values of the time and served the economic units of the empire. In 1790 Leopold II introduced the Lipótinus coin, which was a silver coin. The coin was typically minted in various provinces of the empire and was used in everyday transactions. Besides the silver thalers and Lipótinus copper coins were also minted during Leopold's period. These copper coins were generally of lesser value and were used for local trade activities. The coins were issued with two denominations: the krajcáros and the denar. The krajcáros was the largest denomination and represented 1/120 of a forint, while the denar contained the smallest value, 1/240 of a forint. Leopold II died in 1792, so his coinage did not spread beyond the mentioned period.


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