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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 237512, member: 2844&quot;]On the Maria Theresia Thaler:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1753, the empress and the Dutch of Bavaria sign a coinage convention, defining the weight and the content of silver for all the Maria Theresia coins struck in Austria and Bavaria. That was 28 grams, with a 85% of silver purity and measuring 42 mm of diameter. After the death of the Empress in 1780, his son Joseph II allowed the Austrian mint to continue striking the currency with the frozen date of 1780.</p><p><br /></p><p>More than thirty million Maria Theresia Thalers were struck and distributed through different European ports towards the East, Egypt and the Red Sea. Its diffusion arrived until China, India and was used in Africa like official currency until World War II. The Maria Theresa Thaler came to cover a very important niche of commerce. Europe needed exotic products like coffee, arabic gum, spices, perfume oils, and Arabia needed the silver for the commerce, the traditional jewellery and the dowries.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the rise of the coffee trade in the XVIII century, the Arabic Peninsula had the Maria Theresa Thaler coins available in great amounts. Only ten years after being struck in Vienna, this coins came to the coffee retailers of the port of Mocha in Yemen, who sold their coffee to Austria. The demand of coffee increased in Europe, and the Maria Theresa Thalers were exchanged by coffee growing in the highlands of Yemen.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1900, more than two hundred million MTT were circulating in Yemen and Ethiopia. Soon, other cities began to struck it like Bombay, London, Vienna, Rome.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>from:</p><p><a href="http://www.arabiafelixjewels.com/the-maria-theresa-thaler-and-the-traditional-yemen-silver-jewellry.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.arabiafelixjewels.com/the-maria-theresa-thaler-and-the-traditional-yemen-silver-jewellry.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.arabiafelixjewels.com/the-maria-theresa-thaler-and-the-traditional-yemen-silver-jewellry.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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