sandman67 wrote:
aha! 1520s....would that be the silver dollar then?
Maybe silver (and gold) coin reproductions?? The many commercials they run here saying "limited run" "you can only 5" when actually they are not worth what you pay??
If not I'm stumped too!!
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Dollar seems to fit
from wiki:
On the 15th of January, 1520, Count Hieronymus Schlick (Czech: Jeroným Šlik z Passounu) of Bohemia began minting coins known as Joachimsthaler, named for Joachimstal (modern Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), where the silver was mined.[1] (In German, thal or tal refers to a valley or dale.) "Joachimsthaler" was later shortened in common usage to taler or thaler (same pronunciation), and this shortened word eventually found its way into Danish and Norwegian as (rigs)daler, Swedish as (riks)daler, Dutch as (rijks)daalder, Ethiopian as ታላሪ talari, Italian as tallero, Flemish as daelder, and into English as dollar.
given the original red herring date - 1620s - I was gonna suggest the Second Protestant Reformation that took place during the Thirty Years War. That got exported to the USA via refugees.
That and plague.
OK brain boxes
what
when
where
(the original not the one on a trolley that is)
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