Editing Thaler (section)

==Joachimsthaler==
{{See also|Tolar}}
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   | footer = [[Electrotyping|Electrotype copy]] of a 1525 Joachimsthaler of the [[Kingdom of Bohemia]].
 The obverse side pictures St Joachim, the reverse side features the Bohemian Lion and the name of [[Louis II of Bohemia and Hungary|Louis II]].  
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By 1518, ''guldiners'' of similar weight to ''guldengroschen'' were popping up everywhere in central Europe. In the [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], then ruled together with Hungary by [[Louis II of Hungary|Louis II]] of the [[Jagiellonian dynasty]], a guldiner was [[mint (coin)|minted]]— of similar physical size but slightly less [[fineness]]—that was named in German the ''Joachimsthaler'', from the silver mined by the [[Counts of Schlick]] at a rich source near Joachimsthal (today [[Jáchymov]] in the [[Czech Republic]]) where ''Thal'' (Tal) means "valley" in German. Saint [[Joachim]], the father of the [[Mary, the mother of Jesus|Virgin Mary]], was portrayed on the coin along with the [[Bohemian lion]].

Similar coins began to be minted in neighbouring valleys rich in silver deposits, each named after the particular 'thal' or valley from which the silver was extracted. There were soon so many of them that these silver coins began to be known more widely as 'thaler' in German and 'tolar' in Czech.

In the 17th century, some Joachimsthalers were in circulation in the [[Tsardom of Russia]], where they were called ''yefimok'' ({{lang|ru|ефимок}}) – a distortion of the name Joachim.