Spain manufactures a currency of a kilo of silver as tribute to the dollar

In 1518, the mines of the valley Joachimsthal (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic) began to produce large quantities of silver to the mints of the Habsburg Empire. Coins minted with that money, something less than 30 grams, began to be dubbed as Joachimsthalers, which right now would be shortened to thaler. The currency would be extremely famous and its name (translated into Spanish as Thaler) would be used to dub eight reales coins minted by the Spanish Crown. So when after independence the United States decided to adopt the Spanish currency as their own, gave him the name that would globally famous: the dollar.

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the dollar, the Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre-Real Casa de la Moneda offer, from May 23, a series of 1,000 coins collection called One kilogram of silver, dedicated to the history of value. The collection consists of a pure silver coin minted in one kilogram of weight and with a face value of 300 euros. The retail price amounts to 1,500 euros, excluding taxes.

The coin will have a diameter of 10 centimeters. In the center of the front, will look left an portrait of King Philip VI, wearing badges Captain General. Circling the focal reason, in the sense clockwise the front and back of a piece of eight appear; the front and back of a dollar from 1794, the first issued in the United States; and the front and back of a Joachimsthaler.

In the center of the back, the Pillars of Hercules, girded with a band with the slogan PLUS ULTRA. Surrounding the central motifs in the sense of clockwise, the front and back of a German Reichsthaler, a Dutch Leeuwendaalder, a Danish Speciedaler appear and in the poor part of a Maria-Theresien-Taler, the Austrian version of the coin, which still is used in some regions of the Middle East.