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The Story of the Netherlands: Trade, Empire, and Innovation — Fexingo History
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The Amsterdam Wisselbank and the Birth of Modern Banking

6 min•23 juni 2026

In this episode of The Story of the Netherlands, Lucas and Luna explore the Amsterdam Wisselbank, the world's first central bank. Founded in 1609, it solved the chaos of 1,000 different coins, created the agio system, and stabilized the guilder. Learn how its secret lending to the VOC and the city nearly caused a collapse, and how its fall during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War paved the way for modern banking. Discover the clever recepissen system that let merchants trade without cash, and meet the muntmeesters who minted the coins. This is the untold story of how a single institution bankrolled the Dutch Golden Age.

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