thaler

Definitions

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

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Examples

“[I]n exchange⟳ for the 350,000 thaler paid to his royal cousin, the sly Prussian Prince received the Polish territories of Nordhausen, Petersberg, and Quedlinburg, […] Frederick favored neither suggestion and decided to add⟳ another 100,000 thaler to the 350,000 paid to August II. of Saxony; […]”

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