Name
The name Gulden was used on the pre-1867 Austrian banknotes and on the German side of the post-1867 banknotes. In southern Germany, the word Gulden was the standard word for a major currency unit. The name Florin was used on Austrian coins and forint was used on the Hungarian side of the post-1867 banknotes and on Hungarian coins. It comes from the city of Florence, Italy where the first florins were minted.
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“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
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