# Joachimsthalers

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 3, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joachimsthalers/367140 "2006-08-03T03:20:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joachimsthalers/367140/1 "2006-08-03T03:20:09Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joachimsthalers/367140/2 "2006-08-03T03:21:54Z")

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> [@The Sonoran Lizard King](#):
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> 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?

Link to article, sorry:

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_180.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_180.html)