fine. Weight 140 azen (6.729
TRADE COINS.
- Silver Dukaat—
Weight 18 engels 8 2209⁄11200 azen (28.78 grs.).
Standard, 10 pen. 10 grs. (= .868).
- Silver Rijder—
Weight, 21 engels 5 59⁄80 azen (= 52.574 grs.).
Standard, 11 pen. 5 3⁄4 grs. (= .937).
- Gold Dukaat—
Weight, 2 engels 8 24⁄55 azen (= 3.494 grs.).
Standard, 23 kr. 7 grs. (= .983).
The trade money was only minted for private accompt. The unit gulden and the 3-gulden piece were also minted for private accompt, but the divisional silver money, the copper money, and the gold standard 10-gulden piece were only to be minted on Government account.
By Article 15 of this law the franc was adopted in the Southern provinces on a footing of
1 franc = 47 1⁄4 carats. 1 gulden = 2 francs 11 61⁄100 centimes.
Page 354 Finally, by Article 18, the tender of copper was limited to 1 gulden, and that of the smaller silver denomination to one-fifth of the amount of settlement.
By the succeeding law of 22nd March 1839, the silver Netherland gulden was prescribed to be of the weight of 10 wigtje's or grms., and .945 fine.