Florin sign
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The florin sign (ƒ) is a symbol that is used for the currencies named florin, also called guilder, The Dutch name for the currency is gulden. The symbol "ƒ" is the lowercase version of Ƒ of the Latin alphabet. In Unicode, it does not have a separate code point, but the U+0192 ƒ LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK (HTML ƒ
<dot-separator> ƒ
) has "Florin sign" amongst its alternative names. In many serif typefaces, it can often be substituted with a normal italic small-letter f ( f ).
It is used in the following current and obsolete currencies:
Current:
Obsolete:
- Dutch guilder (until 2002)
- Surinamese guilder (until 2004)
- Italian florin (until 1533)