dollars

The word "dollar" and its sign is much more senior, than the American nation and its currency - to it nearly 500 years. In printed form the symbol of dollar appeared in the USA 207 years ago though it was already used in account books much earlier. It is a high time to take an interest in its origin. But at first about that, from where it was exacted a promise "dollar". At the beginning of the XVI century in a mountain valley of Sacred Ioakhim in northwest Bohemia the mine on silver production started to operate. Nearby there was the German city of Sankt-Ioakhimstal (тал, or таль, - in German "valley"), subsequently - the Czech Yakhimov. In 1519 for the Roman Empire the coin in one ounce of silver with the image of the sacred Ioakhim, received the name "ioakhimstaler" there began to be minted. Over time its began to call a thaler. (By the way, the thaler was replaced with brand only in 1873, after association of Germany.) The thaler received wide circulation in Europe. In Sweden "thalers" minted since 1534, in Denmark - from the 1544th. In England him called a daller, then dollar and, at last, dollar.