Forint coins 2001
The forint's name comes from the city of Florence, where golden coins were minted from 1252 called fiorino d'oro.In Hungary, florentinus (later forint), also a gold-based currency, was used from 1325 under Charles Robert and several other countries followed its example. Between 1868 and 1892, the forint was the name used in Hungarian for the currency of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, known in