florin

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He therefore advised Rinaldo to think more maturely of these things, and endeavor to imitate his father, who, to obtain the benevolence of all, reduced the price of salt, provided that whoever owed taxes under half a florin should be at liberty to pay them or not, as he thought proper, and that at the meeting of the Councils every one should be free from the importunities of his creditors.

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  1. noun A guilder.
  2. noun A British coin worth two shillings.
  3. noun A gold coin first issued at Florence, Italy, in 1252.
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  • The price of the tickets has been fixed for 1 florin, which is the maximum customary in this country. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso,"
  • As far as centralized currencies go - if there wasn't a centralized national currency then trades people would have simply created one - which they often did by adopting a currency (the daric, the louis d'or, florin, etc) as a trading currency. —  CNET News.com
  • If that's not confusing enough, there was also the florin (2 shillings, or one-tenth of a pound), the half-crown (2 shillings and sixpence, or one-eighth of a pound), the crown (5 shillings, or one-fourth of a pound), and the guinea (One pound and one shilling.) —  Latest Articles
  • Here's a five florin, here a ten florin note. —  Debts of Honor
  • Anyhow, I know now that I'm not Lady Befnal It seems to me that the knowledge was rather dearly bought," commented Jerton Well, yes, it has rather cleared me out," admitted the identity-seeker; "a florin is about all I've got left on me. —  Beasts and Super-Beasts
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Old Italian fiorino, from fiore, flower (from the lily on the coins), from Latin flōs, flōr-, flower; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English florin, floren, floryn, florein, etc. (sometimes florence, q. v.), from Old French florin, French florin = Provencal Spanish florin = Portuguese florim, from Italian fiorino (Middle Latin florenus), a name first applied to a coin of Florence (first struck in the 12th century), because it was stamped with a lily, from fiore (from Latin florem, accusative of flos), a flower. The allusion to Florence is secondary; the ult. source is the same: see florence.
 

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