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From: cowan@marob.MASA.COM (John Cowan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <651@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 12 May 89 17:44:53 GMT
References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1334@nusdhub.UUCP> <8905081532.AA02862@beaches.hub.toronto.edu> <1977@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
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In article <1977@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>The history of the word 'dollar' is:
>
>There is a valley in Austria, I forget the name, where there was a very
>rich silver mine in medieval times. The silver was minted into local coins,
>called '<name of valley>talers' (the German word for valley is 'tal').

Joachimstal, the (town of the) valley of the River Joachim.