Tolar
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Tolar (German: Thaler) is the Czech name for the silver coin mined in Bohemia in 16th century in Údolí Svatého Jáchyma (in German: Joachimsthal). The modern word dollar was derived from the Spanish dollars, so called in the English speaking world because they were of similar size, and weight to the German Thalers. the German Thalers were so named because they were first minted from a silver mine in 1520 in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, in the Holy Roman empire.
In Bohemia tolar was the main currency from 1520 to 1750.[1]
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- Slovenian tolar - the currency of Slovenia from 1991 to 2006.
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