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  • December 07, 2010 18:26
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December 07, 2010 18:26

I have been importing some provincial currencies lately and I am running into a problem. Should we also convert everything there to guilders or would penny be better? Or should we leave it that way?

Examples

Silver rider = 2.50 guilders or 50 pence

Silver ducat = 3.15 guilders or 63 pence

Gold ducat = 5 guilders or 250 pence

Duit = 0.00625 guilders or 0.125 pence

Shelling = 0.30 guilders or 6 pence

Daalder = 1.5 guilders or 30 stuivers

I don't know if it is so accurate.

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  • December 07, 2010 19:12
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December 07, 2010 19:12

The same problem is of course for the old British coins.

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  • December 08, 2010 16:29
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December 08, 2010 16:29

What a pity that no one else responds. I would like to express the old coins in 'nickels'. I am not an expert in provincial coins, if anyone is quite convinced of his / her knowledge in this field please let me know.

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  • December 08, 2010 16:33
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December 08, 2010 16:33

In addition to British coins, this is also a "problem" with old German coins.

At the Verzamelaarsjaarbeurs I briefly discussed this with Marco and Rene, somewhere in the gigantic 'to do list' of their state, a study into the possibility of limiting the nominal values per period (and therefore also country!), And with that also improve display and sorting.

Are there any ideas / suggestions about the spelling? Now it says, for example:

1 guilder

10 guilders

2.5 guilders

I asked Marco to search for the text after the number and sort the first part as a number.

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  • December 08, 2010 17:31
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December 08, 2010 17:31

I am definitely in favor of the latter from Eric-t.

Wouldn't you be able to choose the nominal value for currencies that have an ISO value (like now). For the older currencies that do not have this, you could just use the name as it appears on the coin. In my opinion, the values of the old-Dutch coins are not exactly that many pennies (because I read somewhere "about" with regard to gold ducat and 5 guilders).

I also have no knowledge of old coins. I just try to think along a bit. You could also let go of the problem on the busier general forum, which also has some 'big thinkers'.

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  • December 08, 2010 21:23
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December 08, 2010 21:23

The value of provincial coins did change over time, a golden rider was first 6 guilders later 14 guilders. The problem on the other hand is that now both the silver and gold ducats are below the ducat value.

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  • December 08, 2010 22:00
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December 08, 2010 22:00

Sorry, I was not aware of the previous response that I posted it. I am not a specialist in provincial coins, I just discovered them. Insert the above text here. I think it would be a good plan to look further as chillian may have been on other forums.

I also had that problem with sorting text fields in numerical order with a database, someone solved that for me, I'll ask how he did it.

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