A mining hole in the mountains of Bohemia produced so much silver it
became the official source of coinage for the entire Holy Roman Empire.
The mine was in a valley called Joachimsthal, and the coins came to have
the same name: “Joachimstalers.” Over time this became shortened to
“Talers” and over more time, the American pronunciation of the word
became the name for the currency that you would like to have in your
pocket.
The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, using a combination of Spanish money symbols.
The $ sign is used in many countries other than the United States,
including the use for the Argentine peso, Brazilian real, Cape Verde
escudo, Chilean peso, Colombian peso, Cuban peso, Dominican peso,
Mexican peso, Tongan pa’anga and Uruguayan peso. Other countries that
trade in their currency as dollars are Australia, Bahamas, Canada,
Liberia and others
If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high
and weight exactly 1 ton. A million dollars’ worth of $100 bills weighs
only 10 kg (22 lb). One million dollars’ worth of once-cent coins (100
million coins) weigh 246 tons.
This is the silver coin first struck as a “Guldiner” in 1486 in Tyrol.
The name “Taler” was first given to the silver coin of the same size
struck in Joachimstal in Bohemia.
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