Bayerische Staatsschuldentilgungscommission 50 Gulden 1866

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

used the

South German gulden The South German Gulden was the currency of the states of Southern 18th century history of Germany, Germany between 1754 and 1873. These states included Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Free City of Frankfurt, Frankfurt and Hohenzollern. It was di ...

(also called '

Florin The Florentine florin was a gold coin (in Italian ''Fiorino d'oro'') struck from 1252 to 1533 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard during that time. It had 54 grains () of nominally pure or 'fine' gold with a pu ...

') as its currency until 1873. Between 1754 and 1837 it was a unit of account, worth of a

Conventionsthaler The or ("Convention "), was a standard silver coin in the Austrian Empire and the southern German states of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid-18th to early 19th-centuries. Its most famous example is the Maria Theresa thaler which is still min ...

, used to denominate banknotes but not issued as a coin. The Gulden was worth 50 Conventionskreuzer or 60 '' Kreuzer Landmünze''. The first Gulden coins were issued in 1837, when Bavaria entered into the South German Monetary Union, setting the Gulden equal to four sevenths of a

Prussian Thaler The Prussian Thaler (sometimes Prussian Reichsthaler) was the currency of Prussia until 1857. In 1750, Johann Philipp Graumann implemented the ''Graumannscher Fuß'' with 14 thalers issued to a Cologne Mark of fine silver, or 16.704 g per thaler ...

. The Gulden was subdivided into 60 ''Kreuzer''. In 1857, the Gulden was set equal to four sevenths of a

Vereinsthaler The Vereinsthaler (, ''union thaler'') was a standard silver coin used in most German states and the Austrian Empire in the years before German unification. The Vereinsthaler was introduced in 1857 to replace the various versions of the North G ...

. The Gulden was replaced by the

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at a rate of 1 Mark = 35 Kreuzer.

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* Kingdom of Bavaria Currencies of Germany Modern obsolete currencies 1873 disestablishments in Germany 19th-century disestablishments in Bavaria Coins of the Holy Roman Empire 1754 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire 18th-century establishments in Bavaria Guilder {{Germany-hist-stub