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I'm surprised that the Dutch "Leewendaalder" (Lion Dollar) wasn't mentioned in the discussion. It was a coin of similar size to the 8 reales, also circulating
by hakfoo 5y ago
I'm surprised that the Dutch "Leewendaalder" (Lion Dollar) wasn't mentioned in the discussion. It was a coin of similar size to the 8 reales, also circulating in the 1500s and 1600s. The Dutch presence in what would become New York and other colonies would have been a likely route for the term to enter the colonial vernacular.
- bartvk 5y agoTalking about Dutch reminds me of the old commercial saying "uw gulden is hier een daalder waard", translated "your guilder is worth a daler/thaler/dollar here".
- aarchi 5y agoI always find it interesting how frequently Dutch is intelligible, knowing German and some basic sound shifts: „Ihr Gulden ist hier einen Thaler wert“
- paleotrope 5y agoDutch and Deutsch? I mean it's the same language separated by hundreds of years.