I believe the coin is from Tuscany. Which is in Italy. And this is your Leopold II:
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[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"]Grand Duke Leopold in the uniform of an Austrian Field Marshal, 1828, by
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Grand Duke of Tuscany[/TD]
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[TH]Reign[/TH]
[TD]18 June 1824 – 21 July 1859[/TD]
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[TH]Predecessor[/TH]
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Ferdinand III[/TD]
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[TH]Successor[/TH]
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Ferdinand IV[/TD]
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Maria Anna of Saxony
Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies[/TD]
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Issue[/TH]
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Caroline of Austria
Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande
Archduchess Maria Maximiliana
Archduchess Maria Isabella
Ferdinand IV
Archduchess Maria Theresa
Archduchess Maria Christina
Archduke Karl Salvator
Archduchess Maria Anna
Archduke Rainer
Archduchess Maria Louisa
Archduke Ludwig Salvator
Archduke John Salvator[/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 2"]Leopold Johann Joseph Franz Ferdinand Karl[/TD]
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House[/TH]
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House of Habsburg-Lorraine[/TD]
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[TH]Father[/TH]
[TD]Ferdinand III[/TD]
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[TH]Mother[/TH]
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Luisa of Naples and Sicily[/TD]
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[TH]Born[/TH]
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Florence[/TD]
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[TH]Died[/TH]
[TD]29 January 1870(1870-01-29) (aged 72)
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Portrait of Leopold II as a young man.
Leopold II of Tuscany (Italian: Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo, German: Leopold Johann Joseph Franz Ferdinand Karl; 3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870) was Grand Duke of
Tuscany (1824–1859).
He married twice; first to
Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832, to
Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he begat his eventual successor,
Ferdinand. Leopold was recognized contemporarily as a liberal monarch, authorizing the Tuscan Constitution of 1848, and allowing a degree of free press.
The Grand Duke was deposed briefly by a provisional government in 1849, only to be restored the same year with the assistance of Austrian troops, who occupied the state until 1855. Leopold attempted a policy of neutrality with regard to the
Second Italian War of Independence, but was expelled by a bloodless coup on 27 April 1859, just before the beginning of the war. The Grand Ducal family left for Bologna, in Papal territory. Tuscany was occupied by soldiers of
Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia for the duration of the conflict. The preliminary peace of Villafranca, agreed to between
Napoleon III of France and
Franz Joseph of Austria on 11 July, provided for the return of the Lorraines to Florence, but Leopold himself was considered too unpopular to be accepted, so on 21 July 1859 he abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Ferdinand. Ferdinand was not, however, any more acceptable to the revolutionaries in control of Florence, and his accession was not proclaimed. Instead, the provisional government proclaimed the deposition of the
House of Habsburg-Lorraine (16 August).
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