thalern.
/ˈtɑːlə/, U.S. /ˈtɑlər/ A German silver coin; a dollar: see dollar n. 1.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > German or Prussian coins
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1787 P. H. Maty tr. J. K. Riesbeck Trav. Germany I. xviii. 204 Making a Bailé's Dictionary..the true price of which is five guineas, sell at Vienna for 100 thalers.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Thaler, a German coin of 30 silver grosschen, worth about 3s. sterling.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. v. 571 ‘Let my ducat be a Joachimsthal one, then!’.. ‘a Joachimsthal-er’; or for brevity, a ‘Thal-er’; whence Thaler, and at last Dollar.
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