daalder

ダールデル　—　Names of money

What the thaler was called in the Low Countries.

Leeuwendaalder (lion daalder)1575– Rijksdaalder17th century

A loanword for thaler, which entered the language via the Low German 'daler'. In 1557, the Philipsdaalder, bearing the portrait of Philip II, was struck with a value of 35 stuivers, and in 1567, the Kruisdaalder with the Burgundian cross was added.

In 1575, amidst the revolt, the province of Holland struck the Liondaalder, which bore neither the king's portrait nor his name. Its fineness was lower than the Rijksdaalder—885 parts per thousand—as it was a silver coin intended to fund the war.

⚠ Precisely because it was disliked domestically, this silver coin was used for foreign payments and became a world trade coin. The name would eventually change to 'dollar' in English parlance.