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nydus/The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896Public
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APPENDIX IV

Fifty-stuiver piece —9 5953 ⁄ 17543 to the mark.
Weight, 17 engels 4 7 ⁄ 32 azens.
Standard, 10 pen. 22 3 ⁄ 4 grs.
Gulden —23 6111 ⁄ 17543 to the mark.
Weight, 6 engels 27 23 ⁄ 80 azens.

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With the annihilation of the Napoleonic structure this scheme perished, and the law of 28th September 1816 erected a system in which elements of both those previously existing were combined.

The coinage was prescribed to consist of gold and silver standard pieces, and gold and silver trade pieces.

The standard coins were—

  1. The Silver Gulden

Weight = 7 engels (= 10.766 grms.).

Content of fine silver = 200 azen (= 9.613 grms.).

Standard = .893.

This was to be the unit, and divided decimally.

  1. The gold piece of 10 Gulden .900
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