Replica - Counts of Schlick Joachimsthaler 1525

Features

Location	Czechoslovakia
Type	Coin replicas
Composition	Bronze
Weight	30.8 g
Diameter	33.5 mm
Thickness	4.5 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 439623

Obverse

St Joachim as pilgrim dividing the letters S I (for St Ioachim) and the date, above composite arms

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AR.DOM.SLI.ST // E7 FRACO.D.B
S I
15 25

Reverse

Bohemia lion left in a double circle, the inner dented. Legend around (starts 12h).

Script: Latin

Lettering: LVDOVIC.PRIM.DEI.GRA.REX .BOEM

Edge

Comments

In 1512, 20 years after Columbus discovered America. A Bohemian Lord Count Stephen Schlik discovered huge silver deposits at St. Joachim's valley in Bohemia (now called Jochymov in Czechoslovakia). The Bohemian word for valley or dale is thale. In 1519 he obtained a charter to mint coins of silver from these mines and first minted these large hefty coins called thalers for short. In 1528 the Habsburg Emperor revoked the charter and made thalers the coins of the realm.
The popularity of the thaler resulted in other countries minting size coins called Tolar, Tallero, Daler, Daaldeer and finaly Dollar depending on the country of their origin. This Joachimsthaler truly was the origin of the US dollar.

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