Joachimsthalers

Comments on Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
#1

I had just been reading in the ‘The Baroque Cycle’ by Neal Stephenson about the mine where the Joachimthalers were made. Wonderful how these postmodernists slip facts into their tapestries of fantasy?

#2

Link to article, sorry:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_180.html