‖ thaler
(ˈtaːlər)
[G. thaler dollar.]
A German silver coin; a dollar: see dollar 1.
| 1787 Maty tr. Riesbeck's Trav. Germ. I. xviii. 204 Making a Bailé's Dictionary..the true price of which is five guineas, sell at Vienna for 100 thalers. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Thaler, a German coin of 30 silver grosschen, worth about 3s. sterling. 1864 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. v. IV. 571 ‘Let my ducat be a Joachimsthal one, then!’.. ‘a Joachimsthal-er’; or for brevity, a ‘Thal-er’; whence Thaler, and at last Dollar. |