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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 5164716, member: 77704&quot;]Austria[ATTACH=full]1210352[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1526 Sulieman the Magnificent, after taking Belgrade/ faced the Hungarian/ Allied Armies at Mohacs. The Ottomans won the day, Lajos II and most of the nobility lay dead on the Battlefield. Sulieman, then made Transylvania a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. Janos I Zapolya claimed the vacant Hungarian throne/ pledging allegiance too Sulieman. Later Ferdinand I of Habsburg lay claim to same throne. Sulieman fed with with Habsburg intrigue, invaded Austria, laid seige to Vienna in 1529. Eventually, Sulieman overstretched/ bad weather ended the campaign. Here is one of these &quot;siege coins&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Another &quot;siege&quot; coin....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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