Hasegg Castle

Hasegg Castle is a fortress and mint placed in Hall in Tirol, Tyrol, Austria. Construction was finished soon after 1300, whilst Hall turned into swiftly turning into the middle of Tyrolean trade and salt mining. The constructing was at the beginning erected to protect the salt mines, the shipping enterprise, the bridge throughout the river Inn and the antique Roman Road. The fort's mint turned into established by using Sigismund, Archduke of Austria in 1477. The first dollar-size silver coin become struck in 1486: the Guldengroschen. When Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria had the old mint transferred from the Castle of Sparberegg to Hasegg in 1567,

Hall skilled a decisive upswing. Between 1748 and 1768, Hasegg Castle became universally well-known for its minting of silver Thalers of which it produced over 17 million specimens. The Thaler, a silver coin used at some stage in Europe for nearly four hundred years, sees its call stay on in diverse currencies because the dollar or tolar. The mint ceased manufacturing in 1806 due to the Napoleonic Wars and the increasing loss of local silver assets.