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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 763715, member: 6229&quot;]<font face="Arial">Florence, Italy (1189 - 1532) was the first city to mint its own gold coins which they named Fiorinos. </font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Want to see a photo of a Fiorino?</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Let&#039;s go back in time to the Florence Mint (anytime during the years 1252 and 1303) when the Fiorino Stretto was struck (photo courtesy of coinarchives.com):</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">(To view the Fiorino look at photo #1) </font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/results.php?search=Firenze+Repubblica&amp;s=0&amp;results=100" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/results.php?search=Firenze+Repubblica&amp;s=0&amp;results=100" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/results.php?search=Firenze+Repubblica&amp;s=0&amp;results=100</a></font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">There were other names used for the gold coins of Florence. For a time the coin was called the Florence after the name of the city. Later it was referred to as the Floren. After the debut of Florence&#039;s Fiorino, other Italian cities started minting their own Fiorinos. Long after the mint at Florence was shut down Fiorinos circulated in Roman commerce and trade because of mintings by such Cities as Medici, Napoli, Tuscany, and, even, the Vatican.</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Thought you&#039;d like to know...</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Clinker</font></p><p><font face="Arial"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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