1810 AD., German States, French occupation, Kingdom of Westphalia, Jerome Napoleon, Cassel mint, 3 Centimes, KM C 23.

German States, French occupation, Kingdom of Westphalia, Jerome (Hieronymus) Napoleon (1807-1813), Cassel (Kassel) mint, engraver: Tiolier, 1810 AD.,
3 Centimes (ø 25 mm / 4,14 g), copper, 4,15 g. theor. mint weight, mintage ? , axis medal alignment ↑↑ (0°), plain edge,
Obv.: HN , HN -monogram (for "Hieronymus Napoleon") at center, incuse laurel branches on a raised rim.
Rev.: KOEN. V. WES[TP]H . FR . PR. / 1810 // 3 / CENT. (eagle´s head r.) - C / Tiolier , value, mint mark and engraver´s name (in script) within a broad, raised rim containing the incuse circular legend.
KM C 23 ; AKS 41 ; Jaeger 31 .

Year / Mint Mark / Mintage
1808 / C / ?
1809 C
1810 C
1812 C

The Kingdom of Westphalia was a new country of 2,6 million Germans that existed from 1807–1813. It included 1,100 square miles (2,800 km2) of territory in Hesse and other parts of present-day Germany. While formally independent, it was a vassal state of the First French Empire and was ruled by Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte. It was named after Westphalia, but it is a misnomer since the kingdom had little territory in common with that area.
Napoleon imposed the first written modern constitution in Germany, a French-style central administration, and agricultural reform. The Kingdom liberated the serfs and gave everyone equal rights and the right to a jury trial. In 1808 the Kingdom passed Germany's first laws granting Jews equal rights, thereby providing a model for reform in the other German states. Westphalia seemed to be progressive in immediately enacting and enforcing the new reforms.
The country was relatively poor but Napoleon demanded heavy taxes and payments, and conscripted soldiers. Few of the men who marched into Russia with Napoleon in 1812 ever returned. The Kingdom was bankrupt by 1812. When Napoleon was retreating in the face of Allied advances in 1813, the Kingdom was overrun by the Allies and (in 1815) turned over most of it to Prussian rule. Most of the reforms, however, remained in place.