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THE "JOACHIM."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " 8rEcTATEE.1 Sra,—You ask, " What is a 'Joachim ?" "Joachim " is an old name for the German silver thaler, as coined from ore in the

Joachimsthal, in Saxony.—I am, Sir, &c., R. F. L.