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n. stiver
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The stuiver was a pre-decimal coin used in the Netherlands. It was worth 16 penning or 8 duit. Twenty stuivers equalled a guilder. It circulated until the Napoleonic Wars. After the conflict, the Netherlands decimalised its guilder into 100 cents. Two stuivers equalled a dubbeltje - the ten cent coin.
After the decimalisation of Dutch currency, the name "stuiver" was preserved as a nickname for the five-cent coin until the introduction of the euro. The word can still refer to the five euro cent coin, which has almost exactly the same diameter and colour. The English denomination name stiver (used in colonial Sri Lanka and Guyana) is derived from stuiver.
The respective total mintage of the Stuiver 1948 was: 25,000,000, struck in Utrecht by the Utrecht mint, mintmaster.
Usage examples of "stuiver".
Miguel tossed the boy a half stuiver, already relishing the wealth coffee would bring: freedom from debt, his own home, a chance to marry once more, children.
Madam Damhuis, of course, had never paid the girl a stuiver, nor had she ever promised to do so.
These boards believed that the best charity would be passage on ships heading out of Amsterdam, so it could do no good to encourage them to stay by dropping a stuiver or two into their greedy little hands.
I removed a pouch from my apron and counted the precious stuivers onto the table.
Outside the alley, crowds of handsome men and women strolled along, a group of children loudly played a game with a ball, and some ragtag jugglers performed for spare stuivers along the canal side.
I removed a pouch from my apron and counted the precious stuivers onto the table.