Florin
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Florin may refer to:
- Modern currency
- Aruban florin, the currency of Aruba
- Hungarian forint, the official currency of Hungary
- The currency sign "ƒ", called the florin sign
- Obsolete coins
- Italian coin florin, minted in Florence in 1252 (origin of the name "florin"), first gold coin minted after the Dark Ages in Western Europe; see also Bezant
- Dutch gulden, used in the Netherlands from 1279 to 2002
- Florin (English coin), a coin valued at six shillings, used only in 1344
- Austro-Hungarian gulden, used from 1754 to 1892
- South German gulden, used from 1754 to 1873
- Nickname of the British two shilling coin, produced from 1849 to 1970
- Florin (Australian coin), used from 1910 to 1966
- Irish florin coin, a two-shilling coin produced from 1928 to 1968
- Florin (New Zealand coin), minted from 1933 to 1965
- People
- Carl Rudolf Florin (1894-1965), Swedish botanist
- Florin Niculescu, Romanian gypsy violinist
- Places
- Florin, California, in Sacramento County, California, United States
- Fictional currency and places
- A currency unit in the computer games Medieval: Total War and Medieval II: Total War
- One of the 2 main countries in William Goldman's The Princess Bride
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