What is "florins"

Usage examples of "florins".

He took me into his private office, and, after counting out three thousand florins in notes and gold, he told me that if I liked I could undoubtedly make the twenty thousand florins I had spoken of.

Have you not letters of exchange to the amount of six thousand florins, or the goods bought with them?

Esther gave me the two thousand pounds I had won so easily, and her father at my request gave me bills of exchange to the amount of a hundred thousand florins, with a note of two hundred thousand florins authorizing me to draw upon him till the whole sum was exhausted.

I still had two hundred thousand francs: I had jewellery worth thirty thousand francs, and fifty thousand florins at Amsterdam.

At last I agreed to give him the forty florins, and I handed them to him in a coffee-house where the major told me I should find him.

I congratulate myself on having seized its meaning, for we were on the point of giving him a hundred thousand florins on account, which he said he must have immediately.

If the receipts amount to more than fifty florins, we will share the overplus between us.

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.

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.

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.