Stuiver

The stuiver was a pre-decimal coin used in the Netherlands. It was worth 16 penning or 8 duit. Twenty stuivers equalled a guilder.

It circulated until the Napoleonic Wars. After the conflict, the Netherlands decimalised its guilder into 100 cents.

After the decimalisation of Dutch currency, the name "stuiver" was preserved as a nickname for the five-cent coin until the introduction of the euro. The word can still refer to the five euro cent coin, which has almost exactly the same diameter and colour.

Two stuivers equalled a dubbeltje - the ten cent coin.

The English denomination name stiver (used in colonial Sri Lanka and Guyana) is derived from stuiver.

Read more about Stuiver:  Stuivers of The Dutch East India Company