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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;regandon, post: 704218, member: 17232&quot;]The following will explain it better than I can.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">The <b>Thaler</b> was the currency of </span><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Bremen_(state)" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Bremen_(state)"><span style="color: black">Bremen</span></a><span style="color: black"> until 1873. It was divided into 72 <i>Grote</i>, each of 5 <i>Schwaren</i>. Until 1863, the Bremen Thaler was on a silver standard, containing 1/13½ </span><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Cologne_mark" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Cologne_mark"><span style="color: black">Cologne mark</span></a><span style="color: black"> of silver. After 1863, the Bremen Thaler, unlike the </span><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Vereinsthaler" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Vereinsthaler"><span style="color: black">Vereinsthaler</span></a><span style="color: black">, went over to a gold standard and was worth 1 4/21 </span><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Gram" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Gram"><span style="color: black">grams</span></a><span style="color: black"> of gold (420 Thaler to the 500 gram &quot;pound&quot;). In 1873, the Thaler was replaced by the </span><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/German_gold_mark" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/German_gold_mark"><span style="color: black">mark</span></a><span style="color: black">. As both currencies were based on gold, an exact conversion was carried out, with 1 Thaler = 3 9/28 Mark.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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