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  • noun stiver

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Examples

  • There were 20 stuivers in a florin and 16 penning in a stuiver.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • 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

  • 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.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • ‘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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