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Ladies in Silver

The term “dollar” cropped up from German “taler“, an old coin that has been circumstanced there. At colonial times it was transformed into “daler” until the Coinage Act of 1792 approved the “dollar” as generally adopted coinage unit.

The most important role in dollar formation took Maria Theresia Taler 1780. The bust of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresia is showed on the taler since 1741. The sideview of this woman with a widow’s veil on perform an ascetic features which could have concealed a wise person of decision. After her …