Maria Theresa thaler

noun

a former silver coin of Austria, issued between 1740 and 1780 and used for trade with Ethiopia and other countries; Levant dollar.

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It is the old Austrian Empire's Maria Theresa thaler�known to Arabs simply as "the Fat Lady."