The ''

Vereinsthaler The Vereinsthaler (, ''union thaler'') was a standard silver coin used in most German states and the Austrian Empire in the years before German unification. The Vereinsthaler was introduced in 1857 to replace the various versions of the North Ger ...

'' was the currency of

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

between 1857 and 1873. It replaced the ''Thaler'' at par and was replaced by the

Mark Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Fi ...

at a rate of 1 ''Vereinsthaler'' = 3 ''Mark''. The ''Vereinsthaler'' was subdivided into 30 ''

Silbergroschen The ''Silbergroschen'' was a coin used in Prussia and several other German Confederation states in northern Germany during the 19th century, worth one thirtieth of a Thaler.Friedrich von Schrötter: ''Wörterbuch der Münzkunde.'' 2nd edn. 1970, p ...

'', each of 12 ''Pfennings''.Shaw (1896), p. 382.

Literature

William Arthur Shaw William Arthur Shaw (1865–1943) was an English historian and archivist. Life Born on 19 April 1865, in Hooley Hill, Ashton-under-Lyne, now in Greater Manchester, he was the son of James Shaw and his wife Sarah Ann Hampshire. He graduated B.A ...

(1896)
''The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896''
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; London: Clement Wilson.

References

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