A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16th to the mid-19thcenturies in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.
A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.
Origin
Borrowed from obsolete Dutch rijcksdaler (modern rijksdaalder), after early modern German reichsthaler; compare riche, dollar.
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