Reichsthalern.

1720 I. Newton Let. 12 Apr. (1977) VII. 89 The word Reichs or Rycks Thalere signifies imperial Dollar.]

1757 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 30 Sept. in Lett. to Son (1774) II. 380 I hope you have..made yourself correctly master of all that sort of knowledge—Course of Exchange,..Reichs-Thalers, down to Marien Groschen.

1801 J. Nodin Brit. Duties Customs, Excise, &c. II. 212 (table) Tin, the Ship-pound... Reichs thaler. [0]. Stivers. 24.

1820 T. Hodgskin Trav. N. Germany I. p. xviii Reichs-Thaler is a coin different in value from a Spanish dollar, and circulated under the guarantee of the empire, or reich.

1829 C. Bradford Jrnl. 11 Sept. in Marchioness of Londonderry & H. M. Hyde More Lett. from Martha Wilmot (1935) 333 A Reich's Thaler, piece of money, which they have here, was named so because it was first coined in the Joachims Thal in Bohemia.

1891 Classical Rev. 5 365/2 The whole collection was disposed of by private contract to the Elector Johann Wilhelm who gave for it 6000 Reichsthalers.

1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 355 The thaler which had been proscribed was again permitted to be issued in 1566 at a value of 68 kreuzer and this denomination, known as the reichsthaler, soon ousted the silver gulden.

1980 Early Music 8 58/1 The theorbist Francesco Arigoni and the archlutenist Gottfried Bentley are listed in the Hofkapelle rosters for 1711 and 1717 (on the latter date at salaries of 400 Reichsthaler each).

2003 M. Rowe From Reich to State vi. 161 The duchies of Cleves and Geldern paid 2,500 Reichsthaler per head in lieu of their quotas.