– or rixdollar – of 48 stuiver was continued in the Cape Province by the British in the early nineteenth century. In Ceylon, the VOC issued coins during the 18th century in denominations of and 1 duit, , 1, 2 and stuiver and 1 rijksdaalder. The currency derived from the Dutch rijksdaalder, although again the Dutch rijksdaalder was worth 50 stuiver and the Ceylon version 48 stuiver. After the British took over Ceylon, the rixdollar was the currency of Ceylon until 1828. The rixdollar was then replaced by the British pound at a rate of 1 rixdollar = 1 shilling 6 pence (£1 = rixdollars). In Suriname the Surinamese Rijksdaalder circulated until 2004, when the Surinamese guilder was replaced by the Surinamese dollar. In the former Netherlands Antilles the rijksdaalder circulated until 2011. In that year the Netherlands Antillean guilder will be replaced by the American dollar and the Caribbean guilder. Similar coins The similarly named Reichsthaler, riksdaler and rigsdaler were used in Germany and Austria-Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, respectively. The American dollar is named after the Dutch daalder, the little brother of the rijksdaalder, with a value of 30 stuiver. References Coins of the Netherlands Economic history of the Netherlands Dutch words and phrases