From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 03/01/2026 21:56, c186282 wrote:   
   > Somebody said "dollar" ... I think that term came   
   >    from Syria. NOT sure why the US founders picked   
   >    it up. Given alliances, I'd have expected them to   
   >    pick up 'francs' instead.   
      
   I said it and it's Germanic   
      
   "from early Flemish or Low German daler, from German T(h)aler, short for   
   Joachimsthaler, a coin from the silver mine of Joachimsthal (‘Joachim's   
   valley’), now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic. The term was later applied   
   to a coin used in the Spanish American colonies, which was also widely   
   used in the British North American colonies at the time of the American   
   War of Independence, hence adopted as the name of the US monetary unit   
   in the late 18th century."   
      
   --   
   "A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight   
   and understanding".   
      
   Marshall McLuhan   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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