THALER 2022 1 OZ $2 SILVER BULLION COIN, It is a little known fact that the Czechs gave the world its most famous and respected currency. The Czech Mint tells the story of how the Jáchymov tolars became US dollars by issuance of 2022 investment coin struck from one troy ounce of fine silver.
The Jáchymov thalers, which began to be minted from silver from the Ore Mountains in 1520, are renowned for the exceptional quality of the metal. Millions of them were created, but most of them were melted down in European countries that did not have their own sources of silver and used to mint foreign coins. In the following centuries, the successful standard that emerged from Bohemia was imitated by many. We know the distorted tallér from Hungary, the talar from Poland, the tàliro from Greece, the tallero from Italy, the dare from Persia, the dalur from Iceland and the daler from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland. It was Dutch currency that spread around the world thanks to the boom in international trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. Dutch coins were used to pay in the Middle East, Indonesia and the Dutch colony in the New World, which later became New York. It was only a short step to the fabled dollar…
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