1 Kreuzer - Maximilian I Joseph Occupation of Tyrol

Bavaria acquired Tyrol from Austria as part of the territorial reorganization following Napoleon's defeat of the Habsburg forces at Austerlitz in December 1805. The Peace of Pressburg, signed days later, stripped Austria of its Tirolean territories and delivered them to Maximilian I Joseph, who had only just been elevated from Elector to King of Bavaria — also by Napoleon's hand. This coin is a direct product of that political settlement, issued to assert Bavarian monetary authority over a newly absorbed population that had spent centuries under Habsburg rule.

Tyrolean resistance to Bavarian administration would turn violent within three years, culminating in Andreas Hofer's rebellion of 1809.