thaler

Meaning

Noun

• A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
• The currency of Baden from 1829 to 1837, valued at 100 Kreuzer.

Origin

• From German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, after Sankt Joachimsthal, the German city in which some of the earliest thalers were minted in 1518. tolar.