Florin

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Florin may refer to these modern currencies:

• Aruban florin.
• Hungarian forint.

Florin may also refer to any several obsolete coins:

• Italian coin florin, minted in Florence in 1252 (origin of name "florin"), first gold coin minted in Western Europe (see also bezants).
• Guilder, used in the Netherlands from 1279-2002.
• Florin (English coin), a coin valued at six shillings, used only in 1344.
• German florin, used from 1680-1790.
• Florin (British coin), a two-shilling coin produced from 1849 to 1970.
• Austrian florin, used from 1857-1892.
• Irish florin coin, another two-shilling coin produced from 1928 to 1968.

Florin is also a name. People named Florin include:

• Carl Rudolf Florin (1894-1965), Swedish botanist.

In fiction, Florin may refer to:

• A currency unit in the computer game Medieval Total War.
• A country in William Goldman's The Princess Bride.

Florin is also the name of a neighborhood in unincorporated Sacramento County, California, adjacent to the cities of Sacramento and Elk Grove.

Guilders
Current	Aruban florin | Hungarian forint | Netherlands Antillean gulden | Polish złoty
Defunct	Austro-Hungarian gulden | British Guianan guilder | Danzig gulden | Dutch gulden | East African florin | Netherlands Indian gulden | Surinamese gulden | West New Guinean gulden
As a denomination	Baden Gulden | Bavarian Gulden | British florin | English florin | Irish florin | Italian florin | Lombardy-Venetia florin | South German Gulden | Tuscan fiorino | Württemberg Gulden
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