Duit

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.}
^ 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.

[Oxford-1] "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-2] Van Dale Groot woordenboek der Nederlandse taal (Eerste deel) (in Dutch). Utrecht/Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie. 1984. p. 678. ISBN 90-6648-402-0.}

[3] 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.

[Winkler_Prins-4] "Duit". Winkler Prins Encyclopaedie (in Dutch). Amsterdam/Brussels: Elsevier. 1947.

[FOOTNOTEShimada200694-5] Shimada 2006, p. 94.

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