florin

name

1. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English florin, floren, from Old French florin, from Italian fiorino (“little flower”). Doublet of fiorino and forint.

1. Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
2. A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands).

   “[I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins.”

3. The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ.
4. A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.
5. A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.