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{ If you got article 5433, apologies. It was incomplete and I posted it 
  quite unintentionally....There's many a slip 'twixt lip and ship. :-) }

Regarding origin of "dollar":

According to the 1980 edition of The American Heritage Dictionary,
`dollar' comes from the Low German `Taler'. Taler is the short form of 
`Joachimstaler' which means "a coin made with metal from Joachimstahl", 
the Czech town of Jachymov located in the Erzgebirge Mountains.

No Indo-European root is shown in this case. Your guess of `dolore' as
the basis for dollar is nicely metaphorical but probably not accurate.

-- Jeff Shore (former member of Dial-A-Pedant, Inc.)
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   "Where worlds collide..."