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
• Florin Krasniqi - Kosovar Albanian nationalist/gunrunner

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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