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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: The origin of "$", the dollar sign?
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In article <jon-2102951058550001@hfmac323.uio.no> jon@babel.ifl.uib.no (Jon Hareide Aarbakke) writes:

>Tell us the etymology of "dollar" !
It's akin to Dutch "daalder", which still means "a guilder and a half", and 
"rijksdaalder" is an existing Dutch coin of two and a half.
The word dollar seems to come from the German equivalent, "Taler".
That is from "Joachimstaler", coin from silver-mine  of Joachimstal in Bohemia.


