thaler
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thaler,
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thalers
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noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of thaler
From German, dating back to 1780–90; see origin at dollar
Example Sentences
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Philip Tell Dodge, 76, founder and president of the Mergen- thaler Linotype Co., director of the Bank of New York and Trust Co.; to Miss Lilias Sutherland, 45, of Manhattan; in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
To finance his invasion of Ethiopia, where the thaler was legal currency, Mussolini pressured Austria into allowing him to mint the coin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Good shot: the first meeting of Antonio and Christina when he tips her a thaler for helping to get his coach out of a snowdrift.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the turbulent 1930s, the thaler became an international political weapon.
From Time Magazine Archive
From this scheme Saxony and Brandenburg held off, maintaining that the advance of the Reichs thaler was not sufficient.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
By contrast, Mr. Koeppe said, Mozart was paid 225 thalers a year as an organist in Salzburg, while the royal clockmaker in Munich earned only 200 a year.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
They weigh almost as much as 1,900 thalers, the German currency of the time, and that was their value — an astonishing amount.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
Decade after decade, thalers continued to tinkle at bazaars from Istanbul to Yemen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Haile Selassie, Conquered Lion of Judah, was below decks with a secretary checking over box after box of gold bars, clinking Maria Theresa silver thalers.
From Time Magazine Archive
An idea of the wealth which the governors of the provinces might extort may be formed from this among other facts, that Cicero originally demanded against Verres a fine of 5,000,000 thalers.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
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