The Siege of the Fortification in Oradea (1692) reflected on Baroque Medals

In the context of the revival of the Habsburg Empire encouraged by the victory against the Turksat Vienna, in the time span between October 1691 and June 1692, Oradea was conquered by the imperial troopsled by General Donath Heissler. In order to celebrate this victory Leopold I issued three medals of diff erent types,made of bronze, silver, tin and gold. Th e medals are described and discussed as numismatic documents regardingthe history of Oradea, being in this way the fi rst Baroque objects that celebrate the new town of the HabsburgEmpire; on the other hand these medals marks the re-birth of this important city of Partium.