Has the word "Dollar" morphed over time?
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Levi Philos leviphilos@centric.net
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Quite clearly it has. "Dollar" was a conversion from a Germanic word for valley that is tied to the English vale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar
On 15 January 1520, the Czech Kingdom of Bohemia began minting coins from silver mined locally in Joachimsthal (Czech Jáchymov) and marked on reverse with the Czech lion. The coins were called joachimsthaler, which became shortened in common usage to thaler or taler. The German name "Joachimsthal" literally means "Joachim's valley" or "Joachim's dale". This name found its way into other languages: Czech tolar, Hungarian tallér, Danish and Norwegian (rigs) daler, Swedish (riks) daler, Icelandic dalur, Dutch (rijks) daalder or daler, Ethiopian ታላሪ ("talari"), Italian tallero, Greek τάλληρον, τάλιρο, tàlleron, tàliro, Polish talar, Persian dare, as well as – via Dutch – into English as dollar.[1]
More here: http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/dollar.html (dollar & dollar symbols)
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=dollar
Dollar Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Dollar in Clackmannanshire. Americanized spelling of German Dahler, Daler, or Taler, topographic names for someone who lived in a valley, from Middle High German tal ‘valley’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. The American word dollar is from Czech tolar, German Thaler, denoting a silver coin first minted at the silver mines at Joachimsthal (‘Joachim’s valley’) in Bohemia (Czech name: Jáchymov). Americanized spelling of Slovenian Dolar, topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, from dol ‘valley’, a derivative of Old High German tal ‘valley’.
It can be argued that the word dollar has morphed into a synonym for money even though it was for about 500 years associated with silver coins of various weights, sizes, and purity (often alloyed with copper). By acts of the congress of the US in 1873 and later the "backing" of the dollar became gold. The famous "Cross of Gold" speech delivered by William Jennings Bryon was about these acts that were described as crimes.
http://www.thegoldstandardnow.org/william-jennings-bryan-and-the-cross-of-gold http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/
After long and often tedious investigation on my part I finally concluded that definitions of dollar are a waste of time and that the very word needs to be dropped. I changed my focus on the question of what money actually is and how it works in human cultures around the world.
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My conclusion is that money is a communication that can be carried by a multiplicity of vectors with advantage accruing to whatever methods provide answers to some basic economic problems that have been well defined in commerce. Unlike many conspiracy theorists I do not regard the UCC as some sort of conspiracy against the people. Anna von Reitz blames it on Rome and the Vatican. I don't.
Italy was located at a very good junction of commerce and the city/state of Naples was a gateway to Europe that tied Mediterranean sea commerce to the land commerce of Europe. Commercial law and the UCC were an evolution where practices that caused problems were made illegal while tested practices were made standard policy. [I don't know the truth, but somewhere I read that Napoleonic code didn't originate with Napoleon – it was the commercial code of Naples.]
The basic problems of commerce at distance are with people who prefer lying and cheating to actually following through and delivering as promised (specific performance of contract).
These fundamental problems will not disappear with the advent of cryptocurrencies... I plan on watching which cryptocurrency team of developers best deal with these age old human problems.
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The concepts of underwriter, insurance, co-signor to contract, and performance bonding will be with us in the future. Furthermore, it is my conclusion that gold will continue to be recognized as a store of value, and it is my recommendation that cryptocurrency system designers look at methods of using gold deposits in a performance bond role.
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