Gold Florin.

Weight: 3,6 grams.
Recto: +flor entia; Lily with two flowers
Verso: + s ioha nnes. b; Saint John standing.

The Florence Gold Florin was coined for the first time in 1252 and had a pureness around 24 carat, the maximum allowed at that era, in the tecniques of gold refinement. For this reason, The Gold Fiorino was allowed in all the european commercial squares. n theCommediathe trobadour Folchetto from Marsiglia, who Dante meets in the thirdcielo, in his polemical speech against Florence and the Church corruption refers to the florin: "Maledetto fiore".