Great Britain 1871 florin

from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70777

This specimen was lot 70777 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Florin, 1871. London Mint. Victoria. PCGS AU-55 Gold Shield. A boldly struck Florin with good luster remaining in the fields and light gray toning." This type was struck 1848-87 in reasonable quantities in an attempt to decimalize the currency (one pound = ten florins). This subtype of 1868-78 has die numbers.

Recorded mintage: 3,426,000 + proofs.

Specification: 11.31 g, 0.925 fine silver, 28.3 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: S-3893; KM-746.2.

Source:

• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.
• Rayner, P. Alan, and Maurice Bull, English Silver Coinage from 1649, 6th Ed., London: Spink & Son, 2015.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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