The florin was the currency of Lombardy-Venetia (reduced to the sole Venetia three years before) between 1862 and 1866. It replaced the lira at a rate of 1 florin = 3 lire. The florin was equivalent to the

Austro-Hungarian florin The florin (german: Gulden, hu, forint, hr, forinta/florin, cs, zlatý) was the currency of the lands of the House of Habsburg between 1754 and 1892 (known as the Austrian Empire from 1804 to 1867 and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy after 1867), ...

. Although it was subdivided into 100 ''soldi'' rather than 100 kreutzers, Austrian coins circulated in Venetia. The only coins issued specifically for Venetia were copper and 1 soldo pieces. The name soldo was chosen due to the equivalence of the predecimal kreutzer and soldo, both worth of a

Conventionsthaler The ''Conventionstaler'' or ''Konventionstaler'' ("Convention ''thaler''"), was a standard silver coin in the Austrian Empire and the southern German states of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid-18th to early 19th-centuries. Its most famous exam ...

. The florin was replaced by the

Italian lira The lira (; plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was first introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc, and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually ...

at the rate of 1 lira = soldi (1 florin = 2.469 lire). This rate corresponded to the comparative silver contents of the lira and florin coins.

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{{Guilder, state=collapsed Obsolete Italian currencies 1862 establishments in the Austrian Empire 1866 disestablishments 19th-century economic history 19th century in Italy History of Lombardy History of Venice Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia