Now, he has a pile of gold in guilders and stivers, but there's hardly anything of his old self left.
"Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks"
William Elliot Griffis
There's my best cap, that cost twenty guilders, utterly ruined.
"Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks"
William Elliot Griffis
This was Johann Fust, a goldsmith, who in or about August, 1450, lent Gutenberg eight hundred guilders to enable him to print books, himself, nominally or truly, borrowing the money from another capitalist, and thereby gaining the right to charge interest on it without breaking the canon law.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard