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💵 Old Suriname money 💵 Old Dutch money
gulden

gulden

9.9
Former main money unit in Suriname equal to 100 cents, replaced by the Surinamese dollar in 2004
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : gulden

Examples

  • And to the six witnesses, another twelve guldens each.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Twelve guldens in coin he left to his executors, Georg Teyssenperger and Michael Setznagel.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The agreements between the German states also established firm relationships between the South German and Austrian Gulden and the North German Thaler by fixing the exact silver contents and weights of these and, implicitly, other coins.

    Academic text (1990)

  • I saved 500 guldens for my trip to Suriname before the currency was replaced.

  • The old gold gulden coins are now valuable collector's items.

  • When I visited Suriname, I exchanged my dollars for guldens at the local bank.

Synonyms

guilder
vsgulden
  • Archaic
3 9.7

A kind of money used in the past in the Netherlands and Suriname

is the Suriname unit that was replaced by a new currency in 2004
florin
vsgulden
  • Archaic
9.9

Money used in Suriname worth 100 cents

is the former unit replaced by a new currency in 2004

Surface Forms

gulden singular
guldens plural

Etymology

Gulden comes from an old Dutch word meaning 'golden', because the name began as a gold coin. So Suriname used gulden as the name of its money until 2004.