!!!Unzialis

Unzialis, big Austrian silver coin, archetype of the  Taler. Archduke 
Sigmund "der Muenzreiche" ("rich in coins") was the first to 
have silver minted into a silver coin at Hall in Tirol in 1486. The 
silver was taken from the area around the town of Schwaz; the coin 
weighed as much as an ounce and was equivalent in value to the 
Goldgulden (therefore also called Guldiner or Guldengroschen). 
Subsequently adopted in Saxony and the Bohemian town of 
Jáchymov (Joachimsthal), this heavy coin was ultimately given 
the name  "Taler", which became the generic term for similar 
coins all over the world.

!Literature
Der Herzog und sein Taler. Erzherzog Sigmund der 
Muenzreiche, Politik - Muenzwesen - Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Hall 
in Tirol 1986.


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