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guilders

Guilders, or guilder, is the English name for the gulden, a historic currency of the Netherlands and several Dutch territories. The name derives from gulden, meaning "golden" coin, and the unit long served as the standard monetary unit in the Low Countries. The guilder was subdivided into 100 cents and circulated in a range of coin and banknote denominations.

The guilder originated in the medieval period and became the principal unit of account in the Dutch

Today the Netherlands uses the euro. The guilder name persists in historical discussions and in the legacy

Republic
and
later
in
the
Kingdom
of
the
Netherlands.
It
circulated
widely
in
the
Dutch
colonial
empire,
including
the
Caribbean
and
Asia,
and
remained
the
official
currency
of
the
Netherlands
until
the
introduction
of
the
euro
on
1
January
2002.
The
fixed
conversion
rate
at
that
time
was
1
euro
=
2.20371
guilders.
of
currency
in
former
Dutch
territories,
some
of
which
maintain
currencies
that
evolved
from
or
were
pegged
to
the
guilder
system.
Old
guilder
notes
and
coins
are
of
interest
to
collectors
and
historians
as
artifacts
of
the
country’s
economic
history.