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The duit (pronounced [ˈdœyt]) (plural: duiten; English: doit[1]) was an old low-value Dutch copper coin.[2] Struck in the 17th and 18th centuries[3] in the territory of the Dutch Republic, it became an international currency.[4][5] It had the value of 1/8 stuiver.[4]
- ^ "doit". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) - "A small Dutch coin formerly in use, the eighth part of a stiver, or the half of an English farthing; hence (chiefly in negative phrases) as the type of a very small or trifling sum."
- ^ Van Dale Groot woordenboek der Nederlandse taal (Eerste deel) (in Dutch). Utrecht/Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie. 1984. p. 678. ISBN 90-6648-402-0.
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Hazlitt, William Carew (1897). Supplement to the Coinage of the European Continent. London: Swan Sonnenschein. p. 63. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
The earliest duit which we have seen is of 1614; and there is also a separate colonial series down at least to 1794.
- ^ a b "Duit". Winkler Prins Encyclopaedie (in Dutch). Amsterdam/Brussels: Elsevier. 1947.
- ^ Shimada 2006, p. 94.
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