Editing Dollar (section)

===Europe and colonial North America===
[[File:Philip V Coin silver, 8 Reales Mexico.jpg|thumb|The [[Spanish dollar]], natively called Peso, was the main coin of the Spanish Empire. This coin is from 1739.]]
The Joachimsthaler of the 16th century was succeeded by the longer-lived [[Reichsthaler]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], used from the 16th to 19th centuries. The Netherlands also introduced its own dollars in the 16th century: the Burgundian Cross Thaler (''Bourgondrische Kruisdaalder''), the German-inspired ''[[Rijksdaalder]]'', and the Dutch lion dollar (''leeuwendaalder''). The latter coin was used for Dutch trade in the Middle East, in the Dutch East Indies and West Indies, and in the [[Thirteen Colonies]] of North America.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Lion-Dollar.intro.html|title=Lion Dollar - Introduction|website=coins.nd.edu}}</ref>

For the English North American colonists, however, the Spanish peso or "piece of eight" had always held first place, and this coin was also called the "dollar" as early as 1581. [[Spanish dollar]]s or "[[pieces of eight]]" were distributed widely in the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish colonies in the New World]] and in the [[Philippines]].<ref name="books.google.nl">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0j6GvkVvAGsC&q=dutch+daalder&pg=PA154|title=Taxation in Colonial America|isbn=978-1400828708|access-date=6 October 2014|last1=Rabushka|first1=Alvin|date=16 December 2010|publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref><ref name = "nqteor">{{cite journal
 | last =Julian
 | first =R.W.
 | title =All About the Dollar
 | publisher =Numismatist
 | year = 2007
 | page =41 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Bill|title=Dollar Default: How the Federal Reserve and the Government Betrayed Your Trust|year=2012|isbn=9781475261080|pages=17–18|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform }}</ref><ref name="NatGeo">National Geographic. June 2002. p. 1. ''Ask Us''.</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Wj22AJfmXgC&q=trade+coins&pg=PA84|title=The First Modern Economy|isbn=9780521578257|access-date=6 October 2014|last1=Vries|first1=Jan de|last2=Woude|first2=Ad van der|date=28 May 1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref>