Re: Florin

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Mike Adams wrote:

>I thought the basic idea of the Florin goes back to the city of
>Florence.
>
>But later were used all over the continent, alot having I supect due to
>economic reasons as well as the good nature of the coins.. Sort of how
>some roman coins were good and some not so good, due to quality of the
>metal, good name.
Yep. Good coins tended to get copied for various reasons. At times
coins were copied because the other guys' circulated more widely or
were better accepted (the Austrian thaler of 1780 is the best most
recent example, as it is still struck and still circulates). Also at
times in an effort at subterfuge.  In those times, any given country's
mints spent a certain amount of time at striking the coins of foreign
governments.

Padraic.

>Mike