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Encyclopedia > Bavarian gulden

The Gulden was the currency of Bavaria until 1873. Between 1754 and 1837 it was a unit of account, worth 5/12 of a Conventionsthaler, used to denominate banknotes but not issued as a coin. The Gulden was worth 50 Conventionskreuzer or 60 Kreuzer Landmünze. The gulden was the currency of the states of southern Germany between 1754 and 1873. ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... The Conventionstaler was a standard silver coin of the Holy Roman Empire. ... Berner Kreuzer von 1776 The Kreuzer was a silver coin and unit of currency existing in the Southern German states prior to the unification of Germany in 1870, and in Austria. ...


The first Gulden coins were issued in 1837, when Bavaria entered into the South German Monetary Union, setting the Gulden equal to four sevenths of a Prussian Thaler. The Gulden was subdivided into 60 Kreuzer. In 1857, the Gulden was set equal to four sevenths of a Vereinsthaler. The Thaler (sometimes Reichsthaler) was the currency of Prussia until 1857. ... The Vereinsthaler (union thaler) was a standard silver coin used in most German states and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the years prior to German unification. ...


The Gulden was replaced by the Mark at a rate of 1 Mark = 35 Kreuzer. German 20 Mark banknote from 1914 (www. ...



 
 

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