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The Word "dollar."

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
July
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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According to one authority the word "dollar" is a corruption of the Germán word "thaler," the form in Dutch 'being "daalder," Danish "daler," and Italian "tallero." All these different forms were derived from Joachim's Thai, a Bohemian town, where the count oL Schliek, A. D. 1518, coined some excellent pieces in silver of one ounce in weight. From the name of the town came Joachim's thaler, applied to the above-named coins, as well as that of Schlickenthaler. Henee Joachim's thaler pieces were first contracted into Joachim's thalers and then into thalers. These coins gained such a reputation that they became a pattern, so that others of the same kind, though marla in other places, took the name, tv9 word assuming different spel!' 3 through the low countries, reaca: : ;; Spain as dollars, and through lts provinces transmitted to the western hemisphere, where it was applied to coins prior to the adoption of the federal currency. In coinage the word "dollar" ia a favorite, 'being found under different spellings in almost every part of the globe.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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