Dubbeltje


A dubbeltje is a small former Dutch coin, originally made of silver, with a value of a tenth of a Dutch guilder. The 10-euro-cent coin is currently also called a dubbeltje in the Netherlands.
The name "dubbeltje" is the diminutive form of the Dutch word "dubbel" because it was worth two stuivers. When the decimal system came to the Netherlands the 10-cent coin was named a "dubbeltje". Before the euro came, the dubbeltje was the world's smallest coin in use; after the Philippine one centavo coin in aluminium from 1967–1974; it weighed 1.5 grams. Japan's one yen coin is 1 gram. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_yen_coin
Formerly in the Netherlands the silver stuiver and the halfje were smaller.
In Dutch slang a dubbeltje was named a beisje, from Dutch-Yiddish beis, the value of two stuivers.
The central opening in a CD is exactly the size of a dubbeltje. Joop Sinjou, head of Philips audio products development, said that "De snelste beslissing in de ontwikkelingsfase was over de diameter van het gat in de cd. Ik legde een dubbeltje op tafel en dat werd de maat."
There are Dutch sayings about the dubbeltje:
Automatic translation from Dutch to English often translates "dubbeltje" as "dime".

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