The Thaler Legacy And Trade Dollars

You might want to search for one of the "value transfer" signs that merchants prominently featured in their stores during a specific period of time.

Each common coin type had a "value" usually related to the pound, rather than the dollar, here in the colonial U.S.

I'm sure if you ask in the colonial section, someone could point you in the right direction.

Building a set of coins thus listed would be challenging, unique, and beautiful.

The Dutch were great traders during this era as well.
Maybe some of the Guilder silver coins could fall into this set ?

Yes, the french ecu is a nice match to the thaler. Added to the list.
I think the best ducth coin match is the rijksdaalder... the lion daalder was more used, but had less silver. Upon research, I found that some later 2 1/2 guilder silver coins were closer but a bit smaller than the thaler, like the ones in the latin monetary union.

This book may be helpful to you.

After some research and using a search engine from a online catalog, found more coins in the thaler model. Updated the list. If someone knows another example not on the list, please contribute.

- Germany/German States: post-thaler 5 mark silver coins.
- Netherlands: the rijskdaalder.
- Great Britain: the british silver crown. Also silver crowns in colonies and related countries, like Australia, South Africa, etc
- Sweden, Denmark and Norway: the dalers.
- France: silver ecu.
- Spain: 8 reales coin.
- Italian and papal states: there were coins called Scudo, Crocione, tallero... and some more. Italian were very creative naming coins.
- Portugal and Brazil: the 960 reis coins, the "patacão", usually struck over a spanish 8 reales.
- Switzerland: they issued thalers but also a similar coin denominated 4 francs or 40 batzen.
- Malta: Scudo.
- Mexico and other ex-spanish american colonies: the silver peso. The only exception to the denomination peso apparently is Bolivia, which issued a 8 soles coin.
- USA: silver dollar.
- China: Dragon dollars,, Yuan Shikai dollar, Chinese Junk dollar
- Japan: 1 yen.
- Hong Kong: british Trade dollar
- French IndoChina: piastre de commerce
- Ethiopia: two kings in 1890-1900s issued large silver Birr coins for national use instead of mariatheresia-thaler.
- Eritrea: italian governement issued a "tallero"
- Belgium: the "patagon"
- Philippines: a silver peso, problaby based on the american silver dollar.
- Dutch West Indies: there was a trade silver gulder coin.
- Russian empire: various silver roubles, specially in the 1700s, were equivalent to the thaler.

Some countries issued only one coin similar to the thaler ou british crown, some of them rare: Cyprus (45 piastres), South Africa Boer Republic (5 shillings), Egypt (20 piastres), Poland (10 zlotych), Kingdom of Hawaii (dollar), Cambodia (silver franc).

There is also several coins from the latin monetary union, usually "5 units", like 5 francs, 5 lire, etc. these are slightly smaller than thalers, I am not considering them here.

From my current world silver crown collection and what I have sold off ebay
Italian states/ papel state - scudo/piastre
Italian states - 4 fiorini
Liechtenstein - 5 Franks
San marino - 5 Lire
Sweden/normay/denmark - specie daler
south africa - 5 schillings
Romania - 5 lei
Serbia - 5 dinara
Bulgaria - 5 leva
spain - 20 reals, 2 escudo
Bank of Ireland - 6 schillings / Trade dollar
Netherlands/dutch states - 3 gulden / 2.5 gulden
Britain - 2 florins

Malta, 30 tari, mid to late 18th Century, during the administration of the Knights of St. John (and their various other names).