Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: PAW 41 dlridings
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Tue Oct 16 09:18:27 2007
References: <471353EA.3090503@dlridings.se> <558E36B2-5395-4945-AA26-7BD9B516C044@pandora.be>

Dollar comes from Joachimstal, big silver mines there in the olden times -
Joachimstaler... taler... dollar. It is now Jachymow in Czech Republic.
I drove that way home from Photokina last year, weird place, big radon spa 
there.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


<snip> His wife is lying next to him. He died at 29 and
> each sarcofag (out of white marble) cost 22,000 riksdaler back then
> (daler = the historical word that "dollar" comes from, I think.  Tollar in
> Slovenien). That would be a lot of money today, it was an  enormous sum
> back then. All for a corpse. What a waste.
>
<snip>
>
> Daniel
>



In reply to: Message from dlr at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] IMG: PAW 41 dlridings)
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