Drachmas Doubloons and Dollars: The History of Money
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Europe in Transformation: The 17th Century
Introduction
 Thalers - The New World - Scales and Weights - Italian Gold - Swedish Plate Money - Sieges and Siege Money - Mughal India - The End of the Age
The End of the Age

Kings Louis XIV (1643-1715) and Peter the Great (1689-1725) set the standards for new absolute monarchies, and the resulting higher costs required new coinages in place of the thaler and its currencies.
French silver écu (1690) with a portrait of Louis XIV.
Russian silver ruble (1724) with a portrait of Peter the Great.