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The Reichsthaler - literally, the dollar of the realm – was the most successful standard silver coin resulting from the 1524-1559 Reichsmünzordnungen or 'imperial minting ordinances' defining a uniform currency standard for the states of the Holy Roman Empire. Below is a history (in terms of grams of silver) of the Reichsthaler specie and ...
While the first standard coin of the Holy Roman Empire was the Guldengroschen of 1524, its longest-lived coin was the Reichsthaler, which contained 1 ⁄ 9 Cologne Mark of fine silver (or 25.984 g), and which was issued in various versions from 1566 to 1875.
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Prussian thaler. The Prussian Thaler (sometimes Prussian Reichsthaler) was the currency of Prussia until 1857. In 1750, Johann Philipp Graumann implemented the Graumannscher Fuß with 14 thalers issued to a Cologne Mark of fine silver, or 16.704 g per thaler. Gold coins were called as Fredrickd'or from 1750 to 1857 except for 1797 (Ducant in ...
North German thaler. The North German thaler was a currency used by several states of Northern Germany from 1690 to 1873, first under the Holy Roman Empire, then by the German Confederation. Originally equal to the Reichsthaler specie or silver coin from 1566 until the Kipper und Wipper crisis of 1618, a thaler currency unit worth less than the ...
HB. Der Reichstaler (bis etwa 1901 geschrieben Reichsthaler; abgekürzt Rthlr., Rthl., rthl., Thl.) ist eine vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert im Heiligen Römischen Reich verbreitete große Silbermünze. Große Silbermünzen ähnlichen Silbergehalts, teilweise auch ähnlicher Bezeichnungen (z. B. dänisch Rigsdaler ), wurden vielfach nachgeahmt.
Conventionsthaler. The Conventionstaler or Konventionstaler ("Convention thaler "), [a] was a standard silver coin in the Austrian Empire and the southern German states of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid-18th to early 19th-centuries. Its most famous example is the Maria Theresa thaler which is still minted today.
