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Kronenthaler. The Kronenthaler was a silver coin first issued in 1755 in the Austrian Netherlands (see Austrian Netherlands Kronenthaler) and which became a popular trade coin in early 19th century Europe. [1] Most examples show the bust of the Austrian ruler on the obverse and three or four crowns on the reverse, hence the name which means ...
- Austrian Netherlands kronenthaler
The kronenthaler was the currency of the Austrian...
- Austrian Netherlands kronenthaler
- Etymology
- Predecessors
- Joachimsthaler
- Holy Roman Empire
- Dutch Republic
- Spain and France
- Switzerland
- Scandinavia
- 19Th-Century Germany
- Legacy
German taler is recorded from the 1530s, as an abbreviation of Joachimstaler. The silver mines at Joachimstal had opened in 1516, and the first such coins were minted there in 1518.The original spelling was taler (so Alberus 1540).German -taler means "of the valley" (cf. Neanderthaler).By the late 16th century, the word was variously spelled as Ger...
The development of large silver coins is an innovation of the beginning Early Modern period.The largest medieval silver coins were known as groat (German Groschen), from denarius grossusor "thick penny". These rarely exceeded a weight of 6 grams. Even these coins were increasingly debased due to the Great Bullion Famine of the 15th century which oc...
By 1518, guldiners of similar weight to guldengroschen were popping up everywhere in central Europe. In the Kingdom of Bohemia, then ruled together with Hungary by Louis II of the Jagiellonian dynasty, a guldiner was minted— of similar physical size but slightly less fineness—that was named in German the Joachimsthaler, from the silver mined by the...
The new large silver coins that became ubiquitous as the 16th century went on were named Thaler in German, while in England and France, they were named crown and écu, respectively, both names taken from what had originally been gold coins. The thaler size silver coins minted in Habsburg Spain was the eight real coin, later also known as peso and in...
leeuwendaalderor lion thaler, 1660Dutch rijksdaalder, 1622Maria Theresa Kronenthaler, 1770, showing the Burgundian Cross with 4 crownsThe discovery of massive silver supplies in Spanish America in the 1530s enabled the massive minting of Spain's eight-real coin well into the 20th century, weighing 27.47 g, 0.9306 fine. Being of nearly identical weight to the German reichsthaler, British colonists in North America eventually called the Spanish coin the dollar, which became the mod...
The Thirteen Cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy and their Associates each minted their own coins, with most larger silver coins conforming to established German or French standards. Thaler and half thaler coins were minted by the cities of Zürich (1512), Bern, Lucerne, Zug, Basel, Fribourg, Solothurn, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen and Geneva. The Refo...
The name thaler was introduced to Scandinavia as daler. The first Swedish daler coins were minted in 1534. The Norwegian speciedaler was minted from 1560. Later Scandinavian daler coins included the Swedish riksdaler (1604) and the Danish rigsdaler (1625). In the early 19th century, these countries introduced their modern currency based on the dale...
At the beginning of the 19th century the South German states valued the Conventionsthaler at 2.4 South German gulden, or 9.744 grams fine silver per gulden. Afterwards, however, they began to mint the Kronenthaler valued at 2.7 gulden - hence a reduced fine silver content for the gulden at 9.52 g. In 1837, the Prussian thaler was fixed at 13⁄4 Sout...
Though various silver thaler coins were minted in most of Europe until the 1870s, these coins were more often counted in non-thaler currency units like Dutch or Austrian guilders, French francs, Spanish reales, etc. By the mid-19th century the thaler (or reichsthaler, rigsdaler) was still the currency unit used in the North German Confederation and...
Der Kronentaler, auch Krontaler oder Brabanter Taler (niederländisch: Kronenthaler; französisch: Couronne de Brabant oder Croison; italienisch: Tallero delle corone oder Crocione) ist eine große Silbermünze, die in Kriegs- und Krisenzeiten einen sicheren Wert darstellte.
The Conventionstaler or Konventionstaler ("Convention thaler "), [a] was a standard silver coin in the Austrian Empire and the southern German states of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid-18th to early 19th-centuries. Its most famous example is the Maria Theresa thaler which is still minted today.
The Maria Theresa thaler ( MTT) is a silver bullion coin and a type of Conventionsthaler that has been used in world trade continuously since it was first minted in 1741. It is named after Maria Theresa who ruled Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia from 1740 to 1780 and is depicted on the coin.
Kronenthaler. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Deutsch: Der Kronentaler war ein ab 1755 in verschiedenen europäischen Staaten geprägter Taler; see auch Krontaler, Brabanter Taler. English: Kronenthaler is the name of Talers minted from 1755 in different European countries. see also Kronenthaler.
