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The thaler (and its linguistic variants) would also survive as the informal name of coins identical to the historical coin like the German 3-mark coin, the Dutch 2 1 ⁄ 2-gulden coin, the 5-franc coins of the Latin Monetary Union (among them France, Belgium, Switzerland), and the Greek 5-drachma coin (τάληρο, taliro).
Dutch New Guinean gulden. The gulden was the currency of Dutch New Guinea until 1963. Until 1950, issues of the Netherlands Indies circulated. A separate currency came into being when West New Guinea became the only part of the Netherlands Indies to remain in Dutch control. The currency was fixed at parity with the Dutch gulden.
Dam square and town hall in 1656 with the Wisselbank in the lower left by Johannes Lingelbach. The Bank of Amsterdam or Wisselbank ( Dutch: Amsterdamsche Wisselbank, lit. 'Exchange Bank of Amsterdam') was an early bank, vouched for by the city of Amsterdam, and established in 1609. [1] It was the first public bank to offer accounts not directly ...
The stuiver [ˈstœyvər] was a coin used in the Netherlands, worth Dutch Guilders ( 16 penning or 8 duit, later 5 cents). It was also minted on the Lower Rhine region and the Dutch colonies. The word can still refer to the 5 euro cent coin, which has almost exactly the same diameter and colour despite being over twice the value of the older coin.
Gulden Draak (Dutch for Golden Dragon) is a dark Belgian beer with high alcohol by volume (10.5%), brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders. It is named after the golden dragon at the top of the belfry in Ghent. [1] There are several variants, including Gulden Draak 9000 Quadruple.
Japanese yen. This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. 10 guilder banknote, part of the Japanese invasion issue of banknotes. The Netherlands Indies guilder, later the Netherlands Indies roepiah ( [ruˈpiah] ), was the currency issued by the Japanese occupiers in the Dutch East Indies between 1942 and 1945.
The Netherlands Antilles ( Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ʔɑnˈtɪlə (n)] ⓘ; Papiamento: Antia Hulandes) [2] was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country consisted of several island territories located in the Caribbean Sea. The islands were also informally known as the Dutch Antilles ...
