Re: Florin

Padraic Brown wrote:

> 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
Indeed.  The gold solidus of Justinian was just such a strong coinage.

>  In those times, any given country's
> mints spent a certain amount of time at striking the coins of foreign
> governments.
This is still practiced, except that it is often a legal agreement between
two governments:  the US government, for example, produces a good
chunk of all the currency of any country in the world.

ObConlang:  What do y'all call currencies in your languages, if any such
exist?

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