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Tulips were once more valuable than gold. |
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| The florin (the Dutch currency at the time, also known as the guilder) had a gold content of roughly 0.77 grams, and a tulip bulb weighed around 20 grams, meaning any bulb that sold for more than 26 florins was worth more than its weight in gold. At the peak of the tulip craze, bulbs regularly cost more than 100 florins, and a Semper Augustus tulip — the most expensive bulb ever sold — could cost as much as 5,200 florins, or roughly a quarter-million dollars today. Alas, the flower's moment in the sun eventually came to an end. Like many economic bubbles, the tulip market burst in part because a number of people bought bulbs on credit that they were not able to pay back. In the winter of 1637, the bottom fell out of the tulip market, and the price halved in a matter of days. | |
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The tulip market never crashed the Dutch economy. | |||||||||
| While the tulip market did experience a fascinating boom in the 1630s, the Dutch economy didn't exactly rise and fall with the flower frenzy as some accounts have suggested. Like many economic fads — including the present-day cryptocurrency trend — participation in the tulip market was limited to a very small number of already-wealthy people. Tulipmania did not affect all of Dutch society, and it never upended the country's economy. Contrary to the many myths around this fragrant chapter of Dutch history, no one ever went bankrupt over the flower. Historians have only ever identified about 350 people who participated in the tulip trade. That's certainly no small feat for a simple flower, but the tulip's storied economic impact wilts under closer scrutiny. | |||||||||
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