Thaler

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  thaler \tha"ler\ (t[aum]"l[~e]r), n. [G. See {Dollar}.]
     A former German silver coin worth about three shillings
     sterling, or about 73 cents, around 1900.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  THALER. The name of a coin. The thaler of Prussia and of the northern states 
  of Germany is deemed as money of account, at the custom-house, to be of the 
  value of sixty-nine cents. Act of May 22, 1846. 
       2. The thaler of Bremen, of seventy-two grotes, is deemed of the value 
  of seventy-one cents. Act of March 3, 1843.