Joachimite
a follower of Joachim, Abbot of Flors, in Calabria. The Joachimites were a branch of the Fratricelli. They were condemned by the Council of Lateran in 1215, and by that of Arles in 1260-1261.
JOACHIMSTAL (that is, Joachim's Valley), a town of Bohemia, on the southern declivities of the Erzgebirge, 2,440 feet above sea level, and four miles from the Saxon boundary. Pop. of commune, about 7,500. Some manufacturing and trade interests. It is to this place that the German word Thaler or Taler owes its name. In 1518 the Count von Schlick issued here silver coins called guldengroschen, but these coins were JOAN OF ARC JOASH soon called by the surrounding public, throned on clouds, on the other the shield with whom they were popular, popular, Joachimsthaler (that is, belonging to, or coming from, Joachim's Thal or Valley), and this name was soon shortened to thaler.
It is perhaps from this source that the name of the American dollar came.