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dollar German thaler; Spanish peso or piece of eight (i.e. eight reales) XVI; standard unit of coinage in U.S.A., Canada, etc. XVIII. — early Flem., LG. daler (Du. daalder) — G. taler (formerly thaler) short for Joachimst(h)aler, applied to a silver coin made from metal obtained in Joachimst(h)al (i.e. ‘Joachim's valley’) in the Erzgebirge, Czechoslovakia. The forms dolor, -er appeared XVI. dollor, -ar XVII.

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