Talk:Guilder

"...featuring a different bird for each denomination"
It's been only a few years ago now, but I recall that the old banknotes didn't feature birds, but people instead!

ƒ 5 = poet Joost van den Vondel (until it was replaced by a ƒ 5 coin)
ƒ 10 = painter Frans Hals
ƒ 25 = composer Jan Petersz. Sweelinck
ƒ 100 = admiral Michiel de Ruyter (until replaced by a bird, then an abstract)
ƒ 1000 = philosopher Baruch d'Spinoza

These 1950's "face"-notes and the 80's ƒ 50 (sunflower) and ƒ 250 (lighthouse) were designed by R.D.E. Oxenaar. Eventually all faces were replaced by abstracts, designed by Jaap Drupsteen.

Oops, according to http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/countries/Europe/Netherlands/netherlands.htm it -did- feature birds. You know I never noticed them and I had been paying with these for years! Those faces were so imprinted in my mind :-)

Well, maybe someone can use this info for inclusion. -Marc

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It would be a valuable addition if someone could find images of the Dutch Guilder notes (which, as I recall, were very attractively designed). We post similar images for Euro_banknote and United States dollar too. -- Finlay McWalter 14:50, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

You can get those from the ECB website here. I think it would be better if somebody could upload a better picture of the 1G coin because its hard to see what colour its supposed to be. All my Guilders are silver but that looks brown. --Neal ricketts 14:54, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Among them was the daalder, one and a half guilder -- is this right? I recall that Rijksdaalder was the nickname of the two-and-a-half-guilder coin. -- Arwel 16:36, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Citing "the name gulden was used, derived from the German Goldene (golden)." Did someone ever come to the idea that it could be just an original Dutch word ??. The Dutch word "gulden" means gold (adjective), although usually "gouden" is being used today.

"Daalder" = 1.50 guilder, that's right. Probably there used to be a coin for this amount. "Rijksdaalder" = 2.50 guilder.

--Taka 11:25, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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To avoid confusions: German gulden and Dutch guilders had different values against the thaler (or "Reichsthaler"). Three German gulden equalled 2 German Reichssthaler. Dutch and Polish gulden were less valuable - I will give the early 18th century exchange rates against the pound in the article.

Olaf Simons

Exchange Rate history

The wonderful Japanese Yen page contains historical JPY/USD rates. It would be excellent if these could be added here.

Isn't 'guilder' a base unit of money in a roleplaying game '7th sea'? If so, that's definitely a tribute to "Princess Bride"

Arubaanse Gulden

Please add also the Aruban Guilder (Arubaanse gulden) as a current currency —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.247.203.89 (talk) 14:57, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Historical value?

What sort of value did it have in the middle ages? A good meal and lodgings? A set of clothing? A cow? A sword? A set of armor? A warhorse? A farm?