thaler
noun
any of various former large coins of various German states; dollar.
thalers
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pluralof thaler.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
These thalers are nothing but disks of silver struck in Vienna with the likeness of Austria's long dead Empress.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Meyer sent Prince William's Hessian thalers to London, where Son Nathan's speculations multiplied them and won the family a small fortune and big reputation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Weaving employed 311,500 workmen with 32,250,000 thalers wages, spinning only 16,300 workmen with a little over 1,000,000 thalers wages.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
