For $370 I added the following coins to my Thaler-collection to day: Prussia: 1 Thaler 1814 Km 387 1 Thaler 1817 Km 396 1 Thaler 1830 Km 419 1 Thaler 1855 Km 465 1 Thaler 1855 Km 466 Hannover: 1 Thaler 1854 Km 220 Unfortunatly scans is all I have. There´s always a coin or two I can buy instead of a camera
Some rather lovely coins you have added there I can not quite make up my mind as to wich one I like best LOL
I know nothing about thalers other than I've heard about them before. They seem very nice. What is the story behind the coin?
The Thaler has a rich history, tracing it's origin back to the 15th century, when european rulers began to issue large silver coins, to counter debasing of the currency, which followed by years of warfare. The first coin to bear the name Thaler was a large silver coin minted 1518 in Joachimsthal ( litterly Joachims valley), in modern day Czech republic, the Joachimsthaler. Mints in other valleys (thal) in the same area as Joachimsthal began to mint coins equal to the Joachimsthaler, and soon all this types of silver coins where simply called thalers. The thaler became a popular coin, mints in other parts of Europe began to mint their own coins named thaler, and until around 1870 the Thaler was the main currency in central and northern europe. The silver content in the thaler varied through it´s existence, and different states minted different types of thalers to different times: Reichsthaler, Conventionsthaler, rijksdaalder, Rigsdaler, Vereinsthaler, Kronenthaler etc. The most famous thaler ever is undoubtedly the Maria Theresia thaler:
