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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 1180137, member: 8959&quot;]Oh, don&#039;t worry, the very large number of states, duchies, principalities and kingdoms, and other entities which unified to eventually became Germany is certainly confusing to most people. I would say that it is confusing and mostly unknown to most germans nowadays anyway....&nbsp;&nbsp; The coinage, though, is fascinating and extending over many centuries (as for most European countries), but it is also complex and vast. One could never hope to complete a collection of &#039;german&#039; coinage, and what most people do is to focus on one state (Prussia, Bavaria for example), or a particular time period (for example medieval coinage, or 19 th century coinage until unification, like I do).</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer you question: the double thalers of the 19th century are about 40 mm in diameter, and weigh 37 grams (per Krause). So both larger and heavier than a Morgan dollar, for example.&nbsp;&nbsp; People must have had very big pockets to be able to use them in daily commerce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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