Velhagen & Klasing was a major German publishing company in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Übersichtskarte von Afrika, 1886 (published in Andree's Allgemeiner Handatlas, 1887)
A thaler, or taler, is one of the large silver coins minted in the states and territories of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy during the Early Modern period. A thaler size silver coin h
Four thalers and one double thaler, compared to a U.S. quarter (bottom center): Clockwise from top left: Saxe-Altenburg 1616 (reverse), Saxony 1592, Austria 1701 (obverse), Saxony 1592 (obverse), Center: double thaler, Austria 1635 (obverse).