Hieronymus Schlick
Hieronymus Schlick was a Bohemian count who authorised the minting of joachimstalers ,after Joachimstal, the valley in which the silver was mined. Joachimstalers was later shortened to taler, the origin of the word "dollar".
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- Jeff Berwick (26 April 2011). "The Federal Reserve Note is Dead, Long Live the U.S. Dollar". The Market Oracle.
Categories:
- 15th-century Bohemian people
- Medieval Bohemian nobility
- European nobility stubs