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A Popular Silver Dollar |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 343 Words, 2,045 Characters |
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The Maria Theresa taler (dollar) is one of the world's most interesting and widely circulated silver coins. Minted in Austria in honor of its empress, all the coins are dated 1780, the year of her death. The empress is portrayed on the obverse and the impe...
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... to the United Nations, it purchased a check for $38,000 from the U.S. Embassy, which took in payment about one and one-half tons of talers.
Although Yemen now uses banknotes, in the 1980s it was still possible to occasionally find the coin being used as a secondary currency in remote northern village markets. Today the Maria Theresa taler is relegated to souvenir shops.--T.B.S.
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