gulden
Americannoun
plural
guldens, guldennoun
Etymology
Origin of gulden
1590–1600; < Dutch gulden ( florijin ) golden (florin)
Example Sentences
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Your debt, lieutenant,' he added, in his most friendly manner, 'amounts to exactly eleven thousand gulden.
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The Free City of Danzig is about to discard German marks and substitute an independent currency with 100 heller to one gulden.
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One and five gulden coins will also be minted.
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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.
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Groschen = 1⁄21 Rhenish gold gulden, 12 loth fine, 136 to mark.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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