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*AskTaxMama Newsletter, Money, Money Funnies

The Dollar is as Old as the Hills, uh, I Mean Valleys

Posted on December 17, 2010December 17, 2010 by TaxMama

The Thaler (or Taler or Talir) was a silver coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years. Its name lives on in various currencies as the dollar or tolar. Etymologically, “Thaler” is an abbreviation of “Joachimsthaler”, a coin type from the city of Joachimsthal (Jáchymov) in Bohemia, where some of the first such coins […]

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