Leopold the retailer Hogmouth Box: Silver Coin of the Habsburg King

The story:
Born in Vienna in 1640, Leopold I reigned as Holy
Roman Emperor from 1657 until his death in 1705.
A man of great culture and learning, a generous
patron of the arts, and an amateur composer,
Leopold was more of an aesthete than a general.
This did not stop him from participating in a
number of wars during his reign, including three
separate conflicts with Louis XIV's France, none of
them successful. He did manage to repulse the
Turks from Hungary, which had been held by the
Ottomans since the Battle of Mohacs in 1526 retailer. He
was a staunch Catholic, and strove to crush
Protestantism from his empire. In this, too, he
proved unsuccessful.

What history remembers Leopold for, however, is
his mandibular prognathism—a genetic defect in
which the lower half of the jaw is longer than the
upper, a complaint known colloquially as Habsburg
jaw. The royal lines of Europe were famously
inbred, and Leopold's line was no exception. First
cousins married first cousins, who then married
other first cousins, and recessive genetic defects
exploded. The egregiously inbred Charles VII of
Spain, born with webbed feet and several other
physical and mental disabilities, was Leopold's
nephew.

Ironically, the portrait of Leopold on this silver
coin, his “hog mouth” looking almost cartoonish, is
said to not accurately reflect his actual profile.
While no one would accuse the Emperor of being a
handsome man, Leopold was less deformed than
the unflattering portrait he chose to display on his
coinage. Indeed, it was this coin that gave rise to
the “hog mouth” sobriquet.