Denomination nomisma

Name [de]

Taler (Levantetaler)

Name [en]

Taler (Levantetaler)

Nomisma

http://nomisma.org/id/taler_(levant_taler) nomisma

Information

in the broadest sense any Taler size coin issued in relation to trade activities with the Easter mediterranean (Levant). Specificially those talers issued by various authorities in Italy and the Maria-Theresientaler, which was intensifly issued posthumously. In particular this term identifies those Prussian talers struck in 1766 and 1767 in a (finally) failed attempt to participate in this trade. Compare F. von Schrötter, Wörterbuch der Münzkunde (1930) s.v. Maria Theresientaler p. 370.

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created

10.05.2024