2010/6/14 Bob W <[email protected]>: > re-introduces. The Maria-Theresa thaler was widespread in Africa for > centuries. You can still see them used as pendants; I have one which I > bought in Ethiopia in 1998, a lovely thing it is. The word 'thaler' evolved > into the word 'dollar'.
Way back when, a monetary unit in Norway was "riks-daler". Apparently stemming from the same thaler. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
