Great Britain 1891 florin

Stack's Bowers May 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75108

This specimen was lot 75108 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $145. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREAT BRITAIN. Florin (2 Shillings), 1891. London Mint. Victoria. NGC MS-61." This type was struck 1887-92 with the 1887 being the common date. A florin was two shillings or one-tenth of a pound; the denomination was introduced in 1848.

Recorded mintage: 836,400, a better date.

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

Catalog reference: S-3925; KM-762.

Sources:

• 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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