thaler
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Etymology
Origin of thaler
From German, dating back to 1780–90; see origin at dollar
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It is reported that Signor Mussolini requested Dr. Seipel, Austrian Chancellor, on the occasion of his recent visit to the Premier, for permission to mint the silver thaler of the Empress Maria Theresa.
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
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
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
The result of the introduction of this standard was that in a few years the raising of the Reichs thaler to 120 kreutzers prevailed all over the empire.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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
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
These thalers are nothing but disks of silver struck in Vienna with the likeness of Austria's long dead Empress.*
From Time Magazine Archive
"Then why did he consent so easily to take only seventeen hundred thalers?"
From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r
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