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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 764302, member: 39&quot;]Makes sense as &quot;florin&quot; and &quot;gulden&quot; basically refer to the same origin. When the fiorino d&#039;oro that Clinker shows us here (interesting post, thanks! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) became known and to some extent used in Bavaria and Tyrol for example, people called the piece &quot;gulden(er)&quot; - the golden one. The name was then used for many coins of that kind.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Netherlands before the euro, people would not call a gulden a florin in spoken language. But it was pretty common, as you wrote, to see the &quot;f&quot; or &quot;(h)fl&quot; abbreviation. Aruba on the other hand, an autonomous part of the Kingdom (near Venezuela), actually had and has &quot;florin&quot; coins. And yes, the Hungarian forint is also derived from fioriono ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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