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European gold coin
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florin
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n. the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder , gulden ] formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder , gulden , Dutch florin ]
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Florin derives from the city of Florence (or Firenze) in Italy and frequently refers to the ( fiorino d'oro ) gold coin struck in 1252 . This money format was borrowed in other countries and the word florin was used, for example, in relation to the Dutch ...
Usage examples of florin.
A smaller Augsburg firm, the Haugs, had in 1560, a capital of 140,000 florins and deposits of 648,000.
I ordered Bassi to give notice that the pit would be two florins and the boxes a ducat, but that the gallery would be opened freely to the first comers.
There are ducats and ecus, florins and agnos, deniers and genoins, pounds and moutons.
Two florins were not the wealth of the Medici, but he hoped they would lighten the murky atmosphere around the Buonarroti house.
Ten soldi was about one-eighth of a florin, and the bricks it would buy were not enough to build a small model.
We were at dessert when a police official brought me five hundred florins, for which I gave him a receipt.
Venetian Specific, which you can sell at two florins a pound, while it will only cost you four gros.
The poor devil overflowed with gratitude, and said he would order supper at a florin a head, according to my instructions.
I will engage you myself for a week at fifty florins a day on the condition that you acknowledge me as your manager for the time being, and pay all the expenses of the theatre.
I have made the bargain took me out of prison by giving security for me, and advanced me six thousand florins in four letters of exchange.
Corneman who gave me a bill of exchange for three hundred florins on M.
Before leaving the banker I asked him to shew me some way of making twenty thousand florins in the short time I was going to stay in Holland.
Millionaires are as plentiful as blackberries, and anyone who is not worth more than a hundred thousand florins is considered a poor man.
Furthermore, they would forgive a sum of twelve hundred thousand florins owed by the French India Company to the Dutch Company.
Boulogne stopped the occupation on which he was engaged to give me a most friendly greeting, but when I said that he owed me a hundred thousand florins he smiled sardonically.