The Dutch 2.5-guilder coin has magnetic properties that allow it to be spun with a precise frequency on a magnetic stirrer. We placed the coin in a glass desiccator that had a slightly concave ...

The Canadian dollar is golden-colored (well, brassy at least); the U.K. coin is also brassy and noticeably thick, as is the Dutch 5-guilder coin (also about 3 bucks) and the French 10 francs ...

Anyway I pacified him with a few tins of bully beef and biscuits and he gave me his 2½ guilder coin to show his gratitude for his liberation At the time we ( my crew) had a good laugh about it ...

The coin dates back to the 14th Century when Dutch provinces first minted their own versions of the Florence coinage, the florin, which had by then spread to northern Europe, and called them guilders.

13 (UPI) -- The Dutch government is trying to collect some of the billions of old guilder coins from before the euro era. Officials say that about 3.5 billion coins with a total value of $634 ...

Since midnight on Sunday (2300 GMT), anyone doing business in guilders risks being fined. But there has been little fanfare about the demise of the centuries-old coins in a nation that has quickly ...