Cape guilder, noun phrase

Forms:
Also Cape gilder, Cape gulden.
Plurals:
Cape guilders, or unchanged.
Origin:
English, DutchShow more Cape + English guilder, from Dutch gulden a silver or gold coin.
obs. except in historical contexts
A unit of currency used during the early years of the Cape settlement. See also rix-dollar.
c1795 Revenue Returns in G.M. Theal Rec. of Cape Col. (1897) I. 135Three Cape Guilders are equal to a Cape Rixdollar, two Silver Guilders of Holland equal to do (sc. ditto).
1798 S.H. Wilcocke tr. of J.S. Stavorinus’s Voy. to E. Indies I. 569At public sales, and likewise in retail, the prices are taken at Cape gilders of sixteen stivers each.
1827 S. Afr. Almanack & Dir. 100The relative value of the paper currency with British money is as follows:..1 Rix dollar equal to one shilling and six pence. 1 Cape Guilder equal to six pence. Cape of Good Hope 15th June 1825. By His Excellency’s Command.
1919 M. Greenlees tr. of O.F. Mentzel’s Life at Cape in Mid-18th C. 153The East India Company takes all the grain that the farmers can sell to it at a fixed price of eight Cape gulden the muid.
1925 H.J. Mandelbrote tr. of O.F. Mentzel’s Descr. of Cape of G.H. II. 137Some people argue that the intrinsic value of all coins in the Dutch possessions is lower than in Holland, and quote the Cape gulden as a unit of 16 stuivers.
1964 L.G. Green Old Men Say 96He was suspected of plundering a wreck but this crime..was never pinned on him. Meyboom left eighty thousand Cape gulden.
A unit of currency used during the early years of the Cape settlement.
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