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- noun
stiver
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Examples
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There were 20 stuivers in a florin and 16 penning in a stuiver.
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The kwartje is about sixpence, the dubbletje is roughly twopence-halfpenny and the stuiver is equal to a little over a penny.
Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964
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Finally, in Nakamura’s original tables, amounts are given as they appeared in seventeenth-century Dutch sources, according to the following format: florin, stuiver, penning.
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‘Yes, I know about the guilder, but they seem to have frightful coins called rijksdaalder and kwartje and dubbletje and stuiver.
Death of a Delft Blue Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1964
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