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Austria, Andreas Hofer, Insurrection 20 Kreutzer, 1809 (KM. 149). Almost extremely fine, light grey tone (£40-50)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, World Coins from the Beeton Cabinet.

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Andreas Hofer (1767-1810), patriot and soldier from St Leonhard in the Tyrol, became the self-styled leader of the Tyrolean peasants after the Peace of Presburg. Betrayed after the insurrection was quelled, Hofer was shot in Mantua on the direct orders of Napoleon