The Maria Theresa Thaler is probably one of the most famous and well known coins of the world circulated for over two centuries and are still minted today, largely for collectors. Many historians consider it to be the first example of a truly international currency, like the US dollar or the Euro.

The origin of the term thaler goes back to the 16th century and the opening of silver deposits at St. Joachimsthal in Bohemia. Here the Counts of Schlick were given the right by the Habsburg court to mint …

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 …