Florin sign
The florin sign (ƒ) is a symbol that is used for the currencies named florin, also called a gulden or guilder. 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
· 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:
Aruban florin
Netherlands Antillean gulden
Obsolete:
Dutch gulden (until 2002)
Surinamese gulden (until 2004)
Italian florin (until 1533)