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From: grass@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Re: Ah !  The Good Old Times
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 10:01:00 EDT
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/* Written 11:23 am  Jun 24, 1985 by steiny@idsvax.UUCP in uiucdcsb:net.nlang */
>
> By the way, does anybody know the origin of the word 'dollar'? I've never met
*** 
	It is not from romance languages!  According to the American
Heritage Dictionary:   

	Low German: "daler", from German "Taler", "taler," short for
	"Joachimsthal," Jachymov, town in the Erzgebrige Mountians,
	Czecoslovakia.
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Joachimsthal (Jachymov) was (maybe still is?) a major silver mining town.  The
Thaler (Taler) was a unit of money used up until the 19th century in parts
of Germany.  Probably some were minted in Jaochimsthal.

	- Judy Grass,  University of Illinois - Urbana
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