Great Britain 1872 florin

Heritage sale 3073, lot 33084

photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 33084 in Heritage sale 3073 (Chicago, April 2019), where it sold for $780. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Victoria 'Gothic' Florin 1872 MS64+ NGC. Expressing full mint bloom with velvety surfaces and ample luster, and a few minor die breaks throughout. From the Engelen Collection of World Coinage." This type was struck 1848-87 in reasonable quantities in an attempt to decimalize the currency (one pound = ten florins). This subtype with die numbers was issued 1868-78.

Recorded mintage: 7,200,000.

Specification: 11.31 g, 0.925 fine silver, .336 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM 746.2.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• ^[1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano and Warren Tucker, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3073, featuring the Lake County Collection of British coins, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2019.

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