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Description: | Large pewter button, complete, dating from the early modern period. The decoration was based on a late medieval or early post-medieval Bohemian 'Thaler' dating from c. 1526/27. It was of the Countship of Schlick, minted before 1526 in Joachimsthal. The die cutter may have been Melshior Peuerlein(?). The original coin was silver and c. 42mm in diameter, weighing 29.11g. The obverse reads (and so does the button): S-TE&FRA COM D B-AR DOMI SLI (the button reads 'SLI' which is probably an error). The obverse description is three-quarter figure of St Joachim above a shield; left and right in field: SI (abbreviation for Saint Joachim). The reverse, which is not present on the button, reads: LVDOWICVS PRIM D GRACIA REX BOE; the reverse description being Lion of Bohemia facing left. After giant silver deposits were discovered in St Joachimsthal in the Erzgebirge (Czech-German border) they were exploited under Count Schlick. By 1520 so many of Schlicks Joachimsthalers were in circulation that the shortened the name to thaler which became the established name for the currenct. The name is still seen today in the pre-eminent dollar. Many other foreign currencies derived their names from the Joachimsthaler, indicating just how widespread its circulation was: daaler (Dutch); tallero (Italian); daler (Swedish) and jocondale or jefimok (Russian). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Boughton, Dot - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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