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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4377741, member: 110350&quot;]Congratulations, Mat. One of the more impressive manifestations of Habsburg inbreeding, and a great coin!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the other way round: see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler</a>, explaining that the word &quot;is shortened from Joachimsthaler, the original thaler coin minted in Joachimstal, Bohemia, from 1518.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I&#039;ve never considered myself a collector of German coins in general or thalers in particular, I couldn&#039;t resist buying some old 17th and 18th century thalers from German-speaking lands myself, back in the 1980s and 1990s.&nbsp; I posted photos of them a couple of weeks ago in the World Coins forum here, in the following two posts:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/germany-coin-thread-only-the-best.222933/page-36#post-4305303" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/germany-coin-thread-only-the-best.222933/page-36#post-4305303">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/germany-coin-thread-only-the-best.222933/page-36#post-4305303</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/germany-coin-thread-only-the-best.222933/page-36#post-4305334" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/germany-coin-thread-only-the-best.222933/page-36#post-4305334">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/germany-coin-thread-only-the-best.222933/page-36#post-4305334</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My favorites might be my two &quot;city view thalers,&quot; one from Regensburg (1754) and one from Nuremberg (1779).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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