Florin

(n.) A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.

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• The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He was all right, as far as money went, but in his deposit he had given her what looked like a bad florin. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Gutenberg spent 4,000 florins before the Bible was half done, and I do not see how he can ever repay me the sums I have advanced. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Faust advanced Gutenberg the sum of 2,020 florins, taking a mortgage on his printing materials as security. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Gutenberg said he should need two or three thousand florins. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The firm was ordered to pay Dritzhn’s brothers the fifteen florins, and nothing more. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• As a result of this interview a contract was drawn up between Gutenberg and his apprentices, according to the terms of which each apprentice was to pay the inventor two hundred and fifty florins. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Then a bill was sent in of one hundred florins for press-work. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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