The history of dollar
- Posted by Stephen Whiteley
- On 29/12/2015
- English, etymology, Linguistics, literary translation, literature, Spanish
The word dollar has a curious and convoluted history: It is derived, as a word, from Thaler, which itself comes from the Joachimsthal silver mine in Bohemia. In 1519, the silver from Joachimsthal was first used to mint the Bohemian coin Guldengroschen (‘great guilder’, made of silver but equal in value to a gold guilder). […]
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