Editing Thaler (section)

==Legacy==
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[[File:Solothurn1.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Swiss 5 francs coin]], 25.0 grams, 90% silver]]

Though various silver thaler coins were minted in most of Europe until the 1870s, these coins were more often counted in non-thaler currency units like Dutch or Austrian guilders, French francs, Spanish reales, etc. By the mid-19th century the thaler (or reichsthaler, rigsdaler) was still the currency unit used in the [[North German Confederation]] and [[Scandinavia]]. By 1875 the thaler itself disappeared as currency unit in Europe upon adoption of the [[gold standard]].

Nonetheless, use of the thaler as currency continued outside Europe in the form of the [[U.S. dollar]] and the [[Canadian dollar]], the [[Mexican peso]] and the various pesos of [[Spanish America]], and the [[Ethiopian birr]]. The thaler (and its linguistic variants) would also survive as the informal name of coins identical to the historical coin like the German 3-mark coin, the Dutch 2{{frac|2}}-gulden coin, the 5-franc coins of the Latin Monetary Union (among them France, Belgium, Switzerland), and the Greek 5-drachma coin (τάληρο, taliro).

Thaler-sized coins minted to late-19th century standards would be minted until 1914 in Mexico and in most of Europe, until 1928 in Switzerland, and until 1934 in the United States. Henceforth thaler-sized silver coins would be minted as bullion or numismatic pieces, among them:
* The [[Maria Theresa thaler]] trade coin
* Modern silver commemorative ''Talers'' minted in German-speaking Europe; e.g. the Swiss ''[[Schützentaler]]'', the Swiss ''Helvetia-Taler'', and the Austrian ''Haller-Taler''.
* The [[American Silver Eagle]], which at {{convert|1|ozt|g}} fine silver is actually heavier than the original silver dollar.

Unrelated to specific coins, the name of the ''thaler'' survives in various modern currency names, in the form ''dollar'' in twenty-three currencies used in countries including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United States of America, and also in the [[Samoan tālā]] and the [[Slovenian tolar]] (before adoption of the euro).