Great Britain 1890 florin

Stephen Album sale 50, lot 3143

This specimen was lot 3143 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR florin, 1890, mottled toning, XF." This is a fairly common date of a type struck 1887-92. The 1887, which was massively saved, is the most frequently seen date.

Recorded mintage: 1,685,000.

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

Catalog reference: KM-762, Spink-3925.

Source:

• 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.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.

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• 1888 florin
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• 1890 penny
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• 1890 Maundy threepence
• 1890 Maundy groat
• 1890 shilling
• 1890 half crown
• 1890 double florin
• 1890 crown
• 1890 half sovereign
• 1890 sovereign
• 1891 florin
• Coins and currency dated 1890