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Published August 10th, 2008 in UncategorizedFlorin 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 name “florin”), first gold coin minted after the Dark Ages in Western Europe; see also, Bezants
- Dutch gulden, 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 1754-1892
- Florin (Australian coin), used from 1910-1966
- Florin (New Zealand coin), minted from 1933-1965
- Irish florin coin, a two-shilling coin produced from 1928 to 1968
In fiction:
- A currency unit in the computer games Medieval Total War and Medieval Total War II
- One of the 2 main countries in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride
- People
- Carl Rudolf Florin (1894-1965), Swedish botanist
- Florin Niculescu, Romanian gypsy violinist
- Places
- Florin, California, in Sacramento County, California, United States