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and is divided into sixty kreutzers, twenty of 

 which form a piece called a zwanziger, the coin in 

 most common use. 



This good florin is distinguished from the bad, 

 or paper, or schein florin by the letters CM., de- 

 noting ^^ Conventions M'dnze," which magical 

 letters, when written on the top of any account, 

 denote that the charges are in that description 

 of money; and when the letters CM. are not 

 written, it is understood that the florin therein 

 intended is the bad or schein florin. This paper 

 florin, which is worth about tenpence English, 

 is also divided into sixty kreutzers, and in this 

 accounts are generally kept. In making pur- 

 chases, therefore, a traveller must always be care- 

 ful that he do not pay ^' Miinz " instead of 

 " schein ;" and he should beware that the letters 

 CM. be not written on the top of a schein florin 

 bill, in order to make him inadvertently pay the 

 good instead of the ordinary florin. I recommend 

 every one who travels in the Austrian territory to 

 take the trouble — and very great trouble I ac- 

 knowledge it is, on account of the infinite variety 

 of small copper coins, generally bearing values 

 different to those stamped upon them — to make 



