c/til · by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 1y

TIL the word dollar came from a combination of Jesus' grandfathers name and the German word for valley.

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/06/in-a-word-the-first-dollar/

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Anomalocaris@lemm.ee · 66 pts · 1y (1 reply)

there was a silver mine in a town named Joachimsthal (The valley of Joachim who was Jesus's grandpa).

they minted coins which were named Joachimsthaler in singular.

the name was eventually bastardised into Thaler or dollar.

y'all welcome

hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl · 21 pts · 1y

Joachimsthaller

Please don't. One L is enough. ...It is complicated: Joachimsthaler (Joachimstaler since the 1900s). Thank you. ;)

TIL that the original meaning of the word Taler is "from the valley" (Tal).

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 1y

Jesus' Alley sounds like a euphemism for Jesus' butthole.

Tikitimebomb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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CosmoNova@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 1y

So the dollar goes back to a German expression and Marxism also originated in Germany. How ironic that the country was forcefully split with both systems competing against each other. History really does rhyme quite often.