By the seventeenth century the thaler had become a unit of currency all over central Europe. It had also been copied in Habsburg Spain, whose taleros or ‘pieces of eight’ circulated throughout the Americas. They were known in English as ‘dollars’.
Norman Davies
By the seventeenth century the thaler had become a unit of currency all over central Europe. It had also been copied in Habsburg Spain, whose taleros or ‘pieces of eight’ circulated throughout the Americas. They were known in English as ‘dollars’.