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thaler: ► definition

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a silver coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years. Its name lives on in the many currencies called dollar and, until recently, also in the Slovenian tolar.
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“One goes for a walk, one looks in a shop, and they ask you to buy. ‘Erlaucht, Durchlaucht?’ Directly they say ‘Durchlaucht,’ I can’t hold out. I lose ten thalers.”

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)

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Even I, a poor secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my joy to give my Franz a thaler,

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 02 (Book Two)