Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — First Meaning of Dollar. [ARTICLE]

First Meaning of Dollar.

Dollars appear to be regarded as essentially wicked coins by some people just now. There was a time when they were minted in our own country. In March. 1797, the mint Issued stamped Spanish dollars worth 4a 9d., but they were called In seven months later. It was from the Spanish coin that America got the Idea of her almighty dollar, but the dollar phoee misses a point, surely, when he omits to mention that the very name was made In Germany. At least, •thaler,” of which “dollar" Is a corruption, was. The original thaler was the silver guldengroschen, coined in ISIS by order of Count Schllck from the silver of Joachlmsthal, in Bohemia. and known at first as the “Joachimsthaler.” Thus the name means etymologically, “of the valley.”—London Chronicle.