300 bags of gelt for $99 (plus shipping)

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What is gelt?

 

"Gelt," a Yiddish term, means chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil, given to children at Hanukkah. Gelt also means "money" in the broader sense.

 

"Milk chocolate made in Holland. Premium Belgian chocolate. "

 

Great price compared to a retail basis, if you want 300 bags!

 

ANACS grades these right?

 

It'll melt in the mail! Mumu, love your joke

 

I'll buy it for "melt" :devil:

 

Ha ha!!!

 

By the way, in Dutch ("geld") and German ("Geld") that etymologically same word simply means "money".

Christian

 

Is that related to Gilders?

 

Not sure but I don't think so. In German, "Geld" got its present meaning (money) in the 14th to 16th century; in earlier times it referred to something used for penance or sacrifice, ie. primarily in religious contexts. German and Yiddish share many words, sometimes the meaning is the very same, and sometimes it's not.

The word gulden (that would be guilder in English) is basically an abridged translation. In Florence they had (since the 13th century) a gold coin named "fiorino d'oro" (golden florin) which soon got popular elsewhere too. And so did its name - in Dutch it became the "gulden" (but "f" or "fl" was a common abbreviation), in Southern German states it was the "Gulden", in Hungary it's the forint, in pre-decimal Britain you had a florin ...

Christian

 

I would not have guessed that the British "florin" and the Dutch "guilder" came from the same roots...

 

German is derived from its mother tongue, Yiddish.

 

Maybe you have religious reasons for believing that. The two are related of course, but rather in the sense of siblings.

Christian

 

No, I have Rashi and classical education to believe it, and inside knowledge, and it was a joke.

 

A joke, eh? Oj vej. Or rather:

 

Shakespeare is always best in the original Klingon.

 

I think you will have a tough time finding any academic evidence that German is derived from Yiddish.

"...Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken in many parts of the world.....The language originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the 10th century in the Rhineland and then spread to Central and Eastern Europe and eventually to other continents."

The five proto-Germanic languages were in use (and undergoing fusion) well over a thousand years before the 10th Century.

BTW, I'd like to see some coins from that early Ashkenazi culture.

 

I don't think they exist. But FWIW, I think it is important to keep in mind that the German and European Jewish cultures co-developed and both were native to Germany and Europe, dating back to migrations as early as the 4th century.

This is getting off topic and it is my fault. Sorry.

Ruben