I visited the Netherlands in 2000, just before they adopted the Euro. I still have a few gulden in my wallet.

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1. I miss those, they were so colorful

2. A tientje! It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of those

3. I’ve never seen one of those. Only coins

4. Is it just me, or was that design relatively new still when the Euro was introduced? I remember this one, but I mostly remember it being blue with a guy on it.

5. It still weirds me out to see my kids’ math books with 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent coins. I’m still used to 5, 10, and 25 as I barely used cash after the introduction of the Euro. It also seems the new system is too easy for math books.

6. Ah, that design takes me back. I remember how much fun that ƒ10 could buy. Its modern equivalent €4.54 feels more like the entry fee to the supermarket.

7. Why did you keep foreing, uncirculated money in you wallet tho 🤔

8. Great times, that would get you 4 beers.

9. I have one in my wallet too! I forgot all about it.

10. I have a full set of the lowest paper currency of every country that joined the euro when it was introduced 😀

    Edited to add: I mean the currency they had before the euro, not the euro itself.

11. I miss my rijksdaalder..

12. I’m Dutch and I just realised I never even seen a 10 gulden bill…

13. Why does it randomly say ijsvogel?

14. I still have a “[steenuil](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/netherlands-100-gulden-banknote-1992-p101-unc–323485185740785127/)” 100 gulden bill around somewhere. This era of gulden bills was the coolest money ever.

15. I barely remember this as money. I was really young when the Euro came out. Aside from the fl.5 coin I really don’t care for any of the old money, much as I don’t care about euros.

16. Frame that bad boy!

17. The good ol days… 1 Magnum classic 1 gulden en 40 cent

    Nowadays: 1 Magnum classic 1 euro en 75 cent and its smaller XDXD

18. I don’t remember this 10 gulden bill

19. Ik weet nog dat ik in 2000 voor 1 gulden een patatje zonder kon halen in Amsterdam. Andere tijden! Dat zou 40 euro cent geweest zijn na de switch. Maar de euro heeft onze koopkracht echt helemaal vernaggeld het is niet te geloven.

20. In not a collector, but I still have the 5, 10, 25 and 50 notes, because even as a kid I thought they were pretty enough to keep. Not this never version though.

21. I have an half Geeltje in my wallet. A friend of mine has the other half….

22. Wat was dat ding eigenlijk spectaculair lelijk 😅

23. bijnamen voor het nederlandse biljetten systeem

    * 10 gulden een joetje
    * 25 gulden een geeltje
    * 50 gulden een zonnetje
    * 100 gulden a meijer
    * 250 gulden een vuurtoren
    * 1000 gulden een rug

24. Can someone explain why it’s saying “De nederlandsche Bank”? I studied some Dutch at university and would have thought it is supposed to be “De nederlandse Bank”?

25. i almost forgot about this bill

26. Impressive that it’s in such a good state after 22 years in your wallet.

27. Thanks, I didn’t know that.

28. Het nieuwe tientje.

29. i forgot how pretty those were

30. As a 90s kid these make me happy. Also happy when I got one as I think up to 50 was the highest given to me.

    If I got handed 10 I knew it was a good day. I also loved the thick 5 gulden coins. I used to have one from my birth year I tried to keep it but it got lost in the chaos of my childhood home I think my father found it and traded it for Euro or so at sone point because he needed the money more…?

31. Een joetje.

32. I’ve come to terms with it, but my god euro bills and coins are ugly. Literally bland by committee.

33. Probably the only thing that kinda hits the nationalistic feels… awesome graphic design on the banc notes. Just little pieces of art imo