Brendan Greeley

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Odd Lots · Brendan Greeley on the Real 500-Year History of the Dollar · 28 May 2026 podcast

You have this big money, little money problem, right?

So eventually, to make the miners happy, they have to solve this and sort of make sure that they're minting little pennies as well.

Anyway, this coin then becomes a standard

for trade in the Baltic.

And you start to see copies of the coin, right?

This is in a sovereign story.

You create your own money to your own standards.

What actually happened is you get little city states and kingdoms all over the Baltic in northern Germany, creating copies of copies of copies of this original coin from Joachimsthal.

All these coins come to be referred to as Jochem's Thaler, coins from Jochem's Thal.

Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?

Doesn't.

So that gets shortened to Thaler.

And then in Dutch, they also start copying.

Sounds like Weizenthaler.

Yes.

You were from some Thal.

Listen, we should mint Weizenthaler.

Yes.

See what happens.

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