← Read the currency articleDutch guilder (euro predecessor): research record
Evidence coverage: 1526–2002. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
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Dutch guilder (euro predecessor)
FTM000337 · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1526–2002; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Parents / predecessors
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
Children / successors
Unit and issue records 3 records
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Dutch guilder (euro predecessor)FTM000796 · C680, C681
The Dutch guilder was the statutory account unit divided into 100 cents under the 28 September 1816 monetary law. Independent dated account-unit witness; not a research-envelope endpoint. · C1269
Amounts were required to be expressed in 20-stuiver Carolusguilders in 1526; this provides an earlier accounting observation for a qualified Dutch-guilder continuity profile. Grouping across later territorial and French-period changes is qualified. No new Carolus, 1694 coin or 1816 decimalization nodes. Amsterdam bank money remains distinct. · C1270
Latest research
Earlier unit continuityThe Dutch guilder was the statutory account unit divided into 100 cents under the 28 September 1816 monetary law. Independent dated account-unit witness; not a research-envelope endpoint.
Sources and qualifications → Earlier unit continuityAmounts were required to be expressed in 20-stuiver Carolusguilders in 1526; this provides an earlier accounting observation for a qualified Dutch-guilder continuity profile. Grouping across later territorial and French-period changes is qualified. No new Carolus, 1694 coin or 1816 decimalization nodes. Amsterdam bank money remains distinct.
Sources and qualifications → Gap review findingThe Dutch monetary system took effect in Suriname on 1 January 1827 under the published 1826 provisions.
Sources and qualifications → Modern account-unit reviewArchivalresearch documentsDutch-to-Curaçaounit separation culminatinginroyalapproval17October1942 andthe1943regulation, followingearlierdisputes. Replacevague1827–1945envelope by evidencedseparationprocess; do notassign1937noteissue as exactbirth.
Sources and qualifications → Modern account-unit reviewThe Surinamese guilder separated from the Netherlands monetary system in1940, beginning local monetary autonomy. Explicit monetary-authority account of separation establishes branching without requiring an uninspected universal conversion clause. Does not make USD peg ancestry.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1816supportedThe Dutch guilder was the statutory account unit divided into 100 cents under the 28 September 1816 monetary law. Independent dated account-unit witness; not a research-envelope endpoint.
C1269 1526qualifiedAmounts were required to be expressed in 20-stuiver Carolusguilders in 1526; this provides an earlier accounting observation for a qualified Dutch-guilder continuity profile. Grouping across later territorial and French-period changes is qualified. No new Carolus, 1694 coin or 1816 decimalization nodes. Amsterdam bank money remains distinct.
C1270
Monetary history 2 events
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
1999-01-01Euro monetary substitution1 EUR = 2.20371 NLG. Netherlands: euro adoption 1999-01-01; cash 2002-01-01. Regulation 974/98 substitutes the euro for each participating state’s currency on its adoption date; cash changeover is separately defined.
C680, C681, C646 2002-01-01Euro cash changeoverNetherlands: euro adoption 1999-01-01; cash 2002-01-01.
C681
Evidence & research notes 12 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C680
1 EUR = 2.20371 NLG.
Council of the European Union · Council Regulation (EC) 2866/98 — consolidation at 1 January 2026 Citation S348 ·
Open source ↗art.1, Netherlands currency row; exact decimal retained
Source access and limitations
Article 2’s original 1999 commencement does not backdate later-added currencies.
Country-specific dates come from the separate 974/98 annex.
Supported C681
Netherlands: euro adoption 1999-01-01; cash 2002-01-01.
Council of the European Union · Council Regulation (EC) 974/98 — consolidation at 1 January 2026 Citation S347 ·
Open source ↗Annex, Netherlands row; arts.2–3 provide substitution
Source access and limitations
Consolidation, not an as-made 1998 text.
National short cash-withdrawal periods and every accession amendment were not individually audited.
Inference C1167
The Curaçao/Antillean guilder developed from the Dutch monetary system introduced in 1827 into a separate territorial system documented by the wartime period. The 1827–1945 range is a research envelope; the legal separation date remains unresolved.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V23-007. Replacevague1827–1945envelope by evidencedseparationprocess; do notassign1937noteissue as exactbirth. Replacement evidence: C1597.
Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten Money Museum: Curaçao Coins History · Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten Money Museum: Curaçao Coins History Citation S563 ·
Open source ↗The Dutch coinage system; A Separate Series of Coins for the Antilles; 1827 issue; Netherlands Antilles; Bank v/d Nederlandse Antillen; Articles 3,16–18,20; PDF pp.4,7–8
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten Money Museum: Curaçao Banknotes History · Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten Money Museum: Curaçao Banknotes History Citation S564 ·
Open source ↗The Dutch coinage system; A Separate Series of Coins for the Antilles; 1827 issue; Netherlands Antilles; Bank v/d Nederlandse Antillen; Articles 3,16–18,20; PDF pp.4,7–8
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Common Monetary System Regulations for Curaçao and Sint Maarten · Common Monetary System Regulations for Curaçao and Sint Maarten, English translation Citation S562 ·
Open source ↗The Dutch coinage system; A Separate Series of Coins for the Antilles; 1827 issue; Netherlands Antilles; Bank v/d Nederlandse Antillen; Articles 3,16–18,20; PDF pp.4,7–8
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full statutory English translation inspected.
Inference C1246
The autonomous Surinamese guilder branched from the Dutch monetary system used locally since 1827. Official history identifies monetary autonomy, corroborated by later separate exchange values; not an ancestry claim from the US-dollar peg.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V25-001. Explicit monetary-authority account of separation establishes branching without requiring an uninspected universal conversion clause. Does not make USD peg ancestry. Replacement evidence: C1599.
Centrale Bank van Suriname · Founding of the CBvS Citation S622 ·
Open source ↗Historical paragraphs: affiliation 1827–1940; monetary autonomy from 1940; pp. 194–195 Nederlandse munten; p. 197 Na de oorlog; note 5 archival reference 2.08.36/357
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
L.M.J. Boegheim, OSO 15 (1996), pp. 191–199 · Het muntwezen in Suriname Citation S623 ·
Open source ↗Historical paragraphs: affiliation 1827–1940; monetary autonomy from 1940; pp. 194–195 Nederlandse munten; p. 197 Na de oorlog; note 5 archival reference 2.08.36/357
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1269
The Dutch guilder was the statutory account unit divided into 100 cents under the 28 September 1816 monetary law. Independent dated account-unit witness; not a research-envelope endpoint.
Joke Mooij, Studies over de sociaaleconomische geschiedenis van Limburg 49 (2004) · Guldens versus franken en thalers: de geldcirculatie in Limburg tussen 1839–1914 Citation S619 ·
Open source ↗PDF p. 2, discussion of Staatsblad 1816 no. 50
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Inference C1270
Amounts were required to be expressed in 20-stuiver Carolusguilders in 1526; this provides an earlier accounting observation for a qualified Dutch-guilder continuity profile. Grouping across later territorial and French-period changes is qualified. No new Carolus, 1694 coin or 1816 decimalization nodes. Amsterdam bank money remains distinct.
Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt, 5 July 2012 · Geschiedenis van de gulden Citation S620 ·
Open source ↗Sections Achtentwintigstuiverstuk; 20 stuivers maakt een piek; Vorsten en hun guldens; PDF pp. 2–3, explanatory notes below coinage table, especially The Florin, Gulden, or Guilder: from 1466; PDF page 2, institutional history paragraph and notes 4–8
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The 1526 decree itself was not inspected; legal accounting requirement is reported by the mint.
John H. Munro, University of Toronto · The Coinages of the United Provinces (the northern Netherlands), of the Spanish (southern) Netherlands, Spain, and England Citation S621 ·
Open source ↗Sections Achtentwintigstuiverstuk; 20 stuivers maakt een piek; Vorsten en hun guldens; PDF pp. 2–3, explanatory notes below coinage table, especially The Florin, Gulden, or Guilder: from 1466; PDF page 2, institutional history paragraph and notes 4–8
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Joke Mooij, Studies over de sociaaleconomische geschiedenis van Limburg 49 (2004) · Guldens versus franken en thalers: de geldcirculatie in Limburg tussen 1839–1914 Citation S619 ·
Open source ↗Sections Achtentwintigstuiverstuk; 20 stuivers maakt een piek; Vorsten en hun guldens; PDF pp. 2–3, explanatory notes below coinage table, especially The Florin, Gulden, or Guilder: from 1466; PDF page 2, institutional history paragraph and notes 4–8
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1304
The Dutch monetary system took effect in Suriname on 1 January 1827 under the published 1826 provisions.
L.M.J. Boegheim, OSO 15 (1996), pp. 191–199 · Het muntwezen in Suriname Citation S623 ·
Open source ↗pp. 194–195, citing Gouvernementsblad 25 October 1826 arts. 1–2
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Inference C1424
Established florin obligations differentiated into current and bank accounting scopes; child date is emergence envelope, not bank foundation 1609. Parent profile includes qualified Dutch current-guilder continuity before 1680.
Quinn and Roberds · Quinn and Roberds, The Big Problem of Large Bills (2005), Atlanta WP 2005-16 Citation S700 ·
Open source ↗Printed pp. 3, 8–11, 43–44, 48; PDF pp. 4,9–12,44–45,49 (zero based). Text extraction; no visual page inspection.
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
LIMIT: Historical interpretation cites Van Dillen; original municipal ordinance not inspected.
Supported C1597
Archivalresearch documentsDutch-to-Curaçaounit separation culminatinginroyalapproval17October1942 andthe1943regulation, followingearlierdisputes.
L.M.J. Boegheim · De aanmuntingen voor de Nederlandse koloniën gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de U.S.A., JMP80(1993) Citation S735 ·
Open source ↗Printedpp234–235/PDF46–47,notes106–108
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1599
The Surinamese guilder separated from the Netherlands monetary system in 1940, beginning local monetary autonomy.
Centrale Bank van Suriname · Oprichting van de CBvS Citation S835 ·
Open source ↗Historical paragraphs1827–1940and1940–present
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1712
Luxembourg official accounts and fiscal obligations shifted from the Dutch-florin denomination to franc accounting under the20December1848law.
Gérard Trausch · Une autre approche de l’histoire économique du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Institut Grand-Ducal, ActesXXVII, LivreIV,2024 Citation S886 ·
Open source ↗Printed pp92–94
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Original law facsimile not retrieved.
Supported C2108
The Belgian monetary law of 5 June 1832 replaced Netherlands-florin reckoning in Belgian public accounts and inherited obligations. Articles 25–26 prescribed 47¼ Netherlands cents per Belgian franc for earlier florin contracts, orders and mandates, and required francs and centimes in public and administrative acts from 1 January 1833. This was a territorial account substitution, not the extinction of the Dutch guilder elsewhere or an immediate recall of all older coins.
Kingdom of Belgium · Loi monétaire du 5 juin 1832, no. 442 (Bulletin officiel no. XLIV), reproduced in Pasinomie, 3e série, tome II (1832) Citation S1103 ·
Open source ↗Printed pp.351–355; especially p.353, articles 25–26, and explanatory note 3 on article 26
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C646
Regulation 974/98 substitutes the euro for each participating state’s currency on its adoption date; cash changeover is separately defined.
Council of the European Union · Council Regulation (EC) 974/98 — consolidation at 1 January 2026 Citation S347 ·
Open source ↗arts.1, 1a, 2–3
Source access and limitations
Consolidation, not an as-made 1998 text.
National short cash-withdrawal periods and every accession amendment were not individually audited.