[G. thaler DOLLAR.] A German silver coin; a dollar: see DOLLAR 1.
1787. Maty, trans. Riesbeck’s Trav. Germ., I. xviii. 204. Making a Bailé’s Dictionary … the true price of which is five guineas, sell at Vienna for 100 thalers.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Thaler, a German coin of 30 silver grosschen, worth about 3s. sterling.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVII. v. IV. 571. ‘Let my ducat be a Joachimsthal one, then!’… ‘a Joachimsthal-er’; or for brevity, a ‘Thal-er’; whence Thaler, and at last Dollar.
