Editing Maria Theresa thaler (section)

==Ethiopia==
[[File:Shipment of thalers, Dire Dawa.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Shipping crates of MTT in Ethiopia, {{circa|1910}}]]
The MTT is first recorded as circulating in [[Ethiopia]] from Emperor [[Iyasu II of Ethiopia]] (1730–1755).<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Pankhurst |author-link=Richard Pankhurst (historian) |title=Economic History of Ethiopia |location=Addis Ababa |publisher=[[Haile Selassie I University]] |date=1968 |page=468 }}</ref> According to traveller [[James Bruce]], the coin, not debased as other currencies, dominated the areas he visited in 1768. [[Joseph Kalmer]] and Ludwig Hyun in the book {{lang|de|Abessinien}} estimate that over 20% of 245 million coins minted until 1931 ended up in Ethiopia.<ref name="bagman">{{cite book |first=Joseph |last=Kalmer |author1-link=Joseph Kalmer |author2=Hyun L. |title=Abessinien |year=1935 |language=de, cs |translator=Milena Jesenská |translator-link=Milena Jesenská |quote=Chapter 13 describes currencies used in pre-WWII Abyssinia.}}</ref>

In 1868, the [[1868 Expedition to Abyssinia|British military expedition]] to [[Amba Mariam|Magdala]], the capital of Emperor [[Tewodros II of Ethiopia]], under [[Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala|Field Marshal Robert Napier]], took MTTs with them to pay local expenses. In 1890 the Italians introduced the {{lang|it|Tallero Eritreo}}, styled after the MTT, in their new [[Italian Eritrea|colony Eritrea]], also hoping to impose it on the commerce with Ethiopia. They remained, however, largely unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=30981 |title=Eritrean Tallero |date=30 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828171004/http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=30981 |archive-date=28 August 2015}}</ref>

In the early 1900s, [[Menelek II of Ethiopia|Menelik II]] unsuccessfully attempted to mint Menelik thalers locally, with his effigy, but styled following the model of the MTT, and force their use. The newly established [[Bank of Abyssinia]] also issued [[banknotes]] denominated in thalers. Starting in 1935 the Italians minted the MTT at the mint in Rome for use in their conquest of Ethiopia. Then during World War II, the British minted some 18 million MTTs in Bombay to use in their [[East African campaign (World War II)|East African Campaign]] to drive the Italians out of Ethiopia.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tschoegl |first1=Adrian E |year=2001 |title=Maria Theresa's Thaler: A Case of International Money |journal=[[Eastern Economic Journal]] |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=445–464 }}</ref>