gulden
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Etymology
Origin of gulden
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden ( florijin ) golden (florin)
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There is the prodigy as meal ticket: Wolfgang and his gifted sister Nannerl carted from court to court by Leopold for a few gulden, ducats, florins, pocket watches and snuffboxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The salesman, a man with $20-$20 vision, sees what might be called a gulden opportunity for creative capitalism: to compete with the Dutch government in the production of currency.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Free State of Danzig chose the "gulden" of about equal value.
From Time Magazine Archive
Signed by Holland's world potent petrol tycoon, Sir Henri Deterding, it urged the Netherlands to reduce the gold content of the gulden, "in order to help trade."
From Time Magazine Archive
From 1559 the Tale and Standard remained legally unaltered; the only variations being thenceforward in equivalence or tariff, thus— Fair of 1585 Set the Rhenish gold gulden and Philipps thaler at 82 kr.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
The price, 300 guldens or florins, was by no means the small one it now seems, nor could the painter pay the whole sum at once.
From Holbein by Fortescue, Beatrice
And when my Wander-jahre was over, Hans Frey treated with my father, and gave me his daughter, by name the Jungfrau Agnes, with a dowry of 200 guldens.
From Dürer Artist-Biographies by Sweetser, M. F.
The Austrian standard to be on the basis of 45 guldens out of a pound of fine silver, and to prevail in the Empire of Austria and the principality of Lichtenstein.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
Uriel was summoned before the tribunal, condemned to pay three hundred guldens, imprisoned for eight days.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
A price of two thousand guldens was set on his head, which gave Vondel cause for another trenchant pasquinade.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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