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A comparison of the purchasing power of the guilder from the year 1450 to another year. To determine the value of an amount of money in one year compared to another, enter the values in the appropriate places below. How much money would you need today to have the same "purchasing power" of Fl 100 in year 1950.
The guilder ( Dutch: gulden, IPA: [ˈɣɵldə (n)]) or florin was the currency of the Netherlands from the 15th century until 2002, when it was replaced by the euro . The Dutch name gulden was a Middle Dutch adjective meaning "golden", [1] and reflects the fact that, when first introduced in 1434, its value was about par to the Italian gold florin.
Ducat. Austrian gold ducat depicting Kaiser Franz-Josef, c. 1910. The ducat ( / ˈdʌkət /) coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages to the 19th century. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing around 3.5 grams (0.11 troy ounces) of 98.6% fine gold, originated in Venice in 1284 and gained wide ...
Curaçao (/ ˈ k j ʊər ə s oʊ,-s aʊ, ˌ k j ʊər ə ˈ s oʊ,-ˈ s aʊ / KURE-ə-soh, KURE-ə-sow, kure-ə-SOH, or kure-ə-SOW, Dutch: [kyːraːˈsʌu] ⓘ or, Papiamentu: [ˈkɔrsɔu̯]), officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of ...
Half-cent coin (Netherlands) The half-cent coin was a Dutch coin used from 1818 to 1940. It was the smallest-denomination coin of the decimal Dutch guilder until its withdrawal from circulation after the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. It was nicknamed "Halfje", similar to the Kwartje (the suffix -je is a diminutive in the Dutch ...
The twenty-five cent was a coin worth a quarter of decimal Dutch guilder. It was used from the decimalisation of the currency in 1817 until the Netherlands adopted the euro as sole currency in 2002. The last minting was in 2001. The coin was the third-smallest denomination of the guilder when the currency was withdrawn, and the largest of a ...
Florin. The Florentine florin was a gold coin (in Italian Fiorino d'oro) struck from 1252 to 1533 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard during that time. [1] It had 54 grains (3.499 grams, 0.1125 troy ounces) of nominally pure or 'fine' gold [2] with a purchasing power difficult to estimate (and variable) but ...