Which modern currency is derived from the old European coin the ‘thaler’?
British currency in the Middle East of the Maria Theresa Thaler. The Maria Theresa Thaler was a variety of the silver Thaler coin first mined in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, and the Thaler is the German coin upon which the Spanish eight real coin was modelled. It is these Spanish dollars (or pieces of eight) that are the parent coinage of the modern US dollar. The word 'dollar' originates from the word Thaler. In 1970, The Sultanate of Oman replaced the rupee with a rial unit that was on par with the pound sterling. Meanwhile, the dinar units in the other parts of the Persian Gulf region had
Thaler as when the mark system was introduced in 1871, one Vereinsthaler was revalued at 3 marks. In Greece, the term "taliro" () is commonly used for the denomination of five of the local currency (5 drachmae or 5 euros). This reflects the fact that, when introduced in 1833, the new Greek currency, the drachma, corresponded to of the value of one thaler, the latter coin thus being equivalent to the 5-drachma coin. The term is still used for the 5-euro banknote. In 2017 a cryptocurrency named Taler was launched in Belarus as a legal payment instrument. Thaler The thaler was