gulden
Americannoun
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guldens,
plural
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gulden
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gulden
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden ( florijin ) golden (florin)
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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
One and five gulden coins will also be minted.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Free City of Danzig is about to discard German marks and substitute an independent currency with 100 heller to one gulden.
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
For the purpose of assimilation or equivalating, the thaler to be reckoned = 1 3⁄4-gulden, and the gulden = 4⁄7-thaler.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
Michel presented him with another hundred thousand guldens, and the two parted on the best of terms.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
They will keep me a prisoner until you, Sir Count, have paid down the sum of twenty thousand guldens for me.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
The two hundred guldens for himself had been paid him on the nail, and he had even insisted on having four hundred.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
"As much as you like, even if it was a hundred guldens," said the Emperor of the Ball, pleased with his gains; and the Stout Ezekiel shook the dice and threw fifteen.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
The tender of silver divisional coins was limited to 10 guldens, and that of copper coins to 1 gulden.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
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