The stuiver was a
coin used in the
Netherlands until the
Napoleonic Wars. It was worth 16 penning or 8
duit. Twenty stuivers equalled a
gulden, which made the stuiver the Dutch equivalent to the
shilling. After decimalisation of Dutch currency, the name "stuiver" was preserved as a nickname for the five-cent coin until the introduction of the
euro; to this day, the name is still often used to refer to the
five euro cent coin, which has almost exactly the same size and shape.The
English denomination name
stiver is derived from stuiver.
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