Memorial coin for the battle of Zenta
Obverse: TIBISCVS / AVSPICIIS / LEOPOLDI MAGNI / memorial coin (1697) the battle near VIRTVTE EVGENII / SABAVDIAE D. / EXERCIT. Zenta
TVRCIC. / . . . / CLADE XX HOST. / FACTA / (43 mm)
PRIMARIIS DVCIB. / DELETIS / CASTRIS VNIVERS. / (28,18 g)
TORMENT. XCVIIII. / OMNIQVE APPARATV / (silver)
BELLICO / INTERCEPTIS / CAESVS PROFLIGAT. /
D. 111 SEPT. / Ao CIOIOCXCVII.
Inscription on a plaque in front of a sitting river god
Reverse: INTERFECIT EXERCITVM EORVM ET SUBVERTIT /
ROTAS CURRUM FEREBANTURQUE IN /
PROFUNDUM. / EXOD. 14. / ZENTA
Besieging troops on both sides of a river.
Circular script: EN NOVVS EX VOTO FELIX LEOPOLDE TRIVMPHVS
(chronosticon = 1697)
Text by Ferenc Soós. Photograph by Ferenc Soós and Péter Szántó.
Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Éremtára, Budapest