FOREWORD: "This volume finally completes the listing of all the non-German silver dollar size coins of Europe. I am again indebted to most of the museum, curators, and individual mentioned in my foreword to Europen Crowns 1600-1700 as I was working on the two books at the same time during my four months in Europe in 1968. Published sources, however, have provided much of my detailed information, especially in the three large groups - nearly threefourths of the book - Austria, Italy and the Netherlands. For Austria Rudolf Voglhuber's and Wolfgang Schulten's works proved invaluable. For Italy, especially for the many small states, the Corpus Nummorum Italicorum was indispensible. ANd the mainstays thru the wilderness of the Netherlands were van Gelder and Hoc's and Delmonte's volumes." Rarely does a single individual become identified so completely with any area of numismatics as did Dr. John S. Davenport (1907-2001). Over a period of more than 50 years, his name became synonymous with the world of large-size silver coins, generally referred to as crowns and talers. “Crowns” in this usage referred to silver coins of 38 millimeters or larger diameter, although crown was also a specific denomination in the coinage of several countries. “Taler” is the modern (post-1873) spelling of the German “thaler,” a nickname first applied to the large silver coins struck by the Counts of Schlick in Joachimsthal, Valley of Joachim, Bohemia in 1517.