Great Britain 1870 florin

from Steve Album sale 45, lot 2709

This specimen was lot 2709 in Stephen Album sale 45 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2023), where it sold for $540. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR florin, 1870, light stain, lustrous fields, PCGS graded Unc details, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." This florin, or two shillings, was struck 1851-87 for circulation. This subtype, struck 1868-78, has a die number under the queen's bust.

Recorded mintage: 1,081,000.

Specification: 11.31 g, 0.925 fine silver, 0.336 troy oz ASW, 28.3 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-746.2, S-3893.

Source:

• 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.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 45, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2022.

Link to:

• 1869 florin
• 1870 half penny
• 1870 penny
• 1870 tuppence
• 1870 threepence
• 1870 shilling
• 1870 half sovereign
• 1870 sovereign
• 1871 florin
• Coins and currency dated 1870