Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)

[John Cowan]

In article <1977 at dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright at dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>The history of the word 'dollar' is:
>
>There is a valley in Austria, I forget the name, where there was a very
>rich silver mine in medieval times. The silver was minted into local coins,
>called '<name of valley>talers' (the German word for valley is 'tal').

Joachimstal, the (town of the) valley of the River Joachim.