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Read more: https://www.czechcenter.org/blog/2020/1/30/origin-of-the-word-dollar
TIL the word Dollar is the Anglicized version of the German word Thaler, meaning from the valley. Thaler is the shortened version of Joachimthalers, a mine town in the Czech Republic (formerly Bohemia) where silver coins were minted.
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I’m german and I always linked dollars to gold for some reason. Maybe because of old western movies or something.
Turns out that the iconic silver dollars are closer to the etymological orign than I thought.
Silver mining in Bohemia being quite an important part of the backstory of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, set during the reign of Wenceslaus and the attacks on Bohemia by Sigismund in 1403.
Your ‘home’ in the game is Stříbrná Skalice / Silberskalitz / Silver Skalitz.
Send me a billion of them, please. I don’t care whatcha call em.