Aug 3, 2006 19:29
17 yrs ago
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English term

fl.

English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general) currency abbreviation
Hi!
can anybody tell me what fl. refers to in the following?

100,000 fl. (US$47,775)

Thanks in advance.
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Aug 3, 2006 19:32: Nesrin changed "Language pair" from "Arabic to English" to "English"

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Discussion

Harry Borsje Aug 4, 2006:
@Erich: fl. in any but a truly historical context will refer to Dutch Guilders, and even these are no longer in use 'today'. The exchange rate of 2.09 fl. (1.05 EUR) to a $ was certainly not unusual.
ErichEko ⟹⭐ Aug 4, 2006:
Today = August 3, 2006
ErichEko ⟹⭐ Aug 4, 2006:
Today, using this: http://www.xe.com/ucc/ yields this: 100,000.00 NLG [Netherlands Guilders] = 58,048.28 USD. You have to check timing of your source text to be sure of which European currency the florin refers to.
Nesrin Aug 3, 2006:
Guilder: The name has often been interchangeable with florin. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilder
So it's Florin.
Khalid Hantash (asker) Aug 3, 2006:
fl. That's good!
Can we say فلوين هولندي؟
Khalid Hantash (asker) Aug 3, 2006:
fl. That's Ok dear, since I am working on a joint Dutch fund,
BUT, what does it stand for?
Nesrin Aug 3, 2006:
I'll change that to English monolingual, Khalid.

Responses

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5 mins
Selected

Dutch guilders

The old monetary unit of the Netherlands.
Peer comment(s):

agree swisstell
15 mins
agree Dave Calderhead
4 hrs
agree AhmedAMS
5 hrs
agree Lubosh Hanuska
1 day 13 hrs
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11 mins

Florin

fl. (Florin)

n. any of a number of different European coins
Peer comment(s):

agree Trudy Peters
5 mins
agree Armorel Young : And it takes me back to when we had florins in England - after all, they only disappeared in 1971 (a 2-shilling piece, for those of you who didn't get your pocket money paid that way).
1 hr
agree Noha Kamal, PhD.
4 hrs
agree Lubosh Hanuska
1 day 13 hrs
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