On the eve of the first world war, Eichengreen shows, the Dutch guilder, Belgian franc and Austrian schilling were all more important as reserve currencies than the dollar.
埃森格林指出，第一次世界大战爆发前夕，荷兰盾、比利时法郎和奥地利先令都是比美元更重要的储备货币。
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He learned Dutch — and Dutch is a very difficult language — in 1696, while the Turkish war went on, or one of them he went off to Western Europe incognito as an embassy soldier.