Note 34 — AUSTRIA. CHAPTER IV.

As soon as you reach Frankfort, the Prussian dollars and groschen cease to circulate generally, and your bill is made out in the money of the empire, that is, in florins or gouldens and kreutzers. The florin, or goulden, is a mere nominal coin of the value of sixty kreutzers, and the silver pieces in circulation are those of 3, 6, 10, 20, and 30 kreutzers each, so marked on the reverse. In Bavaria, the 10, 20, and 30 kreutzer pieces go for 12, 24, and 36 kreutzers; so that the gold ducat, the real value of which is 4-1/2 florins, will, in Bavaria, pass for 4 fl. 54 k., and sometimes five florins. In Austria, however, the silver coins pass for no more than they are marked, and the ducat drops to 4 fl. 30 k. The Venetian ducat, which is frequently met with in Austria, is worth a few kreutzers more than the German ducat. The paper florin, or goulden, is two-fifths, or, as the Austrians calculate, four-tenths of a good or silver florin.