Bayerische Staatsschuldentilgungscommission 50 Gulden 1866

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

used the

South German gulden The South German Gulden was the currency of the states of southern Germany between 1754 and 1873. These states included Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Frankfurt and Hohenzollern. It was divided into 60 kreuzer, with each kreuzer worth 4 pfennig o ...

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

Conventionsthaler The ''Conventionstaler'' or ''Konventionstaler'' ("Convention ''thaler''"), 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 exam ...

, used to denominate banknotes but not issued as a coin. The Gulden was worth 50 Conventionskreuzer or 60 ''

Kreuzer The Kreuzer (), in English usually kreutzer ( ), was a coin and unit of currency in the southern German states prior to the introduction of the German gold mark in 1871/73, and in Austria and Switzerland. After 1760 it was made of copper. In s ...

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 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 Ge ...

. The Gulden was replaced by the

Mark Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * F ...

at a rate of 1 Mark = 35 Kreuzer.

References

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