1809 AD., Austrian states, County of Tyrol, insurection against Napoleon, Hall mint, 1 Kreuzer, KM 148.
Austrian states, County of Tyrol, insurection against Napoleon, Hall mint, 1809 AD.,
1 Kreuzer (ø 24 mm / 5,00 g), copper, ca. 4,5 g. (?) mint weight, mintage ? , axis medal alignment ↑↑ (0°), milled edge with floral leaf pattern,
Obv.: GEFÜRSTETE GRAFSCHAFT TIROL. , crowned eagle, wings spread, wreath encircles head.
Rev.: EIN / KREUZER / 1809. , value and date within wreath.
KM 148 .
Year / Mintage
1809 / ?
The (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140. Originally a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of the Counts of Tyrol, it was inherited by the Counts of Gorizia in 1253 and finally fell to the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1363. In 1804 the Princely County of Tyrol, unified with the secularised Prince-Bishoprics of Trent and Brixen, became a crown land of the Austrian Empire in 1804 and from 1867 a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary.
Following defeat by Napoleon in 1805, Austria was forced to cede Tyrol to the Kingdom of Bavaria in the Peace of Pressburg. Tyrol as a part of Bavaria became a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. The Tyroleans rose up against the Bavarian authority and succeeded three times in defeating Bavarian and French troops trying to retake the country.
Austria lost the war of the Fifth Coalition against France, and got harsh terms in the Treaty of Schönbrunn in 1809. Glorified as Tyrol's national hero, Andreas Hofer, the leader of the uprising, was executed in 1810 in Mantua. His forces had lost a third and final battle against the French and Bavarian forces. Tyrol remained under Bavaria and the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy for another four years.
In 1814, by decisions of the Congress of Vienna, Tyrol was reunified and returned to Austria. It was integrated into the Austrian Empire. From 1867 onwards, it was a Kronland (Crown Land) of Cisleithania.
More on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Tyrol