Editing Dollar (section)

===Other national currencies called "dollar"===
[[File:Nz 1d front.jpg|thumb|A [[New Zealand]] [[New Zealand dollar|one-dollar coin]]]]
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[[File:Zimbabwe 100000000000 Dollars Bill 2008.jpg|thumb|A [[special agro-cheque]] for 100&nbsp;billion dollars, during the [[hyperinflation in Zimbabwe]]]]

Prior to 1873, the silver dollar circulated in many parts of the world, with a value in relation to the British gold [[British sovereign coin|sovereign]] of roughly $1 = 4s 2d (21p approx). As a result of the decision of the German Empire to stop minting silver ''thaler'' coins in 1871, in the wake of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], the worldwide price of silver began to fall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.silver-investor.com/charlessavoie/cs_3-29-05_monetarymadhouse.htm |title=Monetary Madhouse, Charles Savoie, 2005 |publisher=Silver-investor.com |access-date=2012-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227014729/http://www.silver-investor.com/charlessavoie/cs_3-29-05_monetarymadhouse.htm |archive-date=2012-02-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This resulted in the U.S. [[Coinage Act (1873)]] which put the United States onto a '[[de facto]]' gold standard. [[Canada]] and [[History of Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] were already on the gold standard, and the result was that the value of the dollar in North America increased in relation to silver dollars being used elsewhere, particularly [[Latin America]] and the [[Far East]]. By [[1900]], value of silver dollars had fallen to 50 percent of gold dollars. Following the abandonment of the gold standard by Canada in 1931, the [[Canadian dollar]] began to drift away from parity with the U.S. dollar. It returned to parity a few times, but since the end of the [[Bretton Woods system]] of fixed exchange rates that was agreed to in 1944, the Canadian dollar has been floating against the U.S. dollar. The silver dollars of Latin America and [[South East Asia]] began to diverge from each other as well during the course of the 20th century. The [[Straits dollar]] adopted a gold exchange standard in 1906 after it had been forced to rise in value against other silver dollars in the region. Hence, by 1935, when China and [[Hong Kong]] came off the [[silver standard]], the Straits dollar was worth 2s 4d (11.5p approx) [[Pound sterling|sterling]], whereas the [[Hong Kong dollar]] was worth only 1s 3d sterling (6p approx).

The term "dollar" has also been adopted by other countries for currencies which do not share a common history with other dollars. Many of these currencies adopted the name after moving from a [[£sd]]-based to a decimalized monetary system. Examples include the [[Australian dollar]], the [[New Zealand dollar]], the [[Jamaican dollar]], the [[Cayman Islands dollar]], the [[Fiji dollar]], the [[Namibian dollar]], the [[Rhodesian dollar]], the [[Zimbabwe dollar]], and the [[Solomon Islands dollar]].
* The ''[[Samoan tala|tala]]'' is based on the [[Samoan language|Samoan]] pronunciation of the word "dollar".
* The [[Slovenian tolar]] had the same etymological origin as dollar (that is, ''[[thaler]]'').
* The [[Swedish riksdaler|Swedish Daler]] used to be the name for the currency and have the same etymological origin as the German ''[[thaler]]'').