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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 28561, member: 1824&quot;]Have you ever wondered where a lot of well-known coin denominations came from? Well,the Dollar had its origins in the German &#039;Thaler&#039; through the Dutch &#039;Daalder&#039;.When the Scots heard the word &#039;Thaler&#039;,they misinterpreted it,&amp; it became &#039;Dollar&#039; in the Scots-English language.There is,in fact,a place in Scotland called Dollar.The German &#039;Reichsthaler&#039; was rendered into Dutch as &#039;Rijksdaalder&#039;,which became the term for the 2-1/2 Gulden coin of the Netherlands after 1815.Rijksdaalder has since been a denomination in its anglicised form - Rixdollar.The Rixdollar was a money of account in the Cape of Good Hope (although specimen notes were printed),but it was an actual coin in Ceylon - the silver Rixdollar of 1821,which has the portrait of King George IV (reigned 1820-30).The famous Ceylon elephant coins of 1808 are denominated in the fractions of the Rixdollar.I have got a 1/192 Rixdollar &amp; a 1/48 Rixdollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the British West Indies colonies,the Portuguese gold johannes of 6,400</p><p>Reis became known as a &#039;Joe&#039;.The name later became that of the 22 Guilder denomination of Demarary &amp; Essequibo (British Guiana from 1835,</p><p>now Guyana).Specimen notes were printed &amp; dual denominated in both Joes &amp; Guilders.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have any more coin denominations &amp; information about their origin,</p><p>then you are more than welcome to post here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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