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Minelab Matt

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WELL chuffed...pulled one of these out of my local park permission: [81/]

1935 United Kingdom florin

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She is a beauty! Congrats!
 

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Beautiful coin, congratulations!

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Congratulations! That is a very cool looking coin! Thanks for sharing!
 

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Thanks for kind words guys.

Matt
 

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Composition: Silver
Fineness: 0.5000
Weight (g): 11.3104g
Weight (Oz): 0.36 Oz
Net Content: 0.18 Oz (5.66g)
Bullion Value: $4.45
Diameter: 28.00mm


Description

The British two shilling coin, also known as the florin, was issued from 1849 until 1967. It was worth one tenth of a pound, or twenty-four old pence. It should not be confused with the medieval gold florin, which was nominally worth six shillings.

In 1968, in the run-up to decimalisation, the two shilling coin was superseded by the decimal ten pence coin, which had the same value and initially the same size and weight. It continued in circulation, alongside the ten pence, until 1993, when the ten pence was reduced in size.

Florins bearing his left-facing effigy were minted in each year of the reign of King George V (1910 to 1936) except 1910 and 1934. Whilst the weight and diameter of the coin were unchanged, the metal composition was changed in 1920 from 0.925 silver to 50% silver, 40% copper, 10% nickel, then again in 1922 to 50% silver, 50% copper, and again in 1927 to 50% silver, 40% copper, 5% nickel, 5% zinc. The design of the reverse was similar to Queen Victoria's Jubilee florin. Until 1926 the inscriptions on the obverse were GEORGIVS V D G BRITT OMN REX F D IND IMP and on the reverse were ONE FLORIN date, while from 1927 the obverse inscriptions were GEORGIVS V DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX and the reverse ones were FID DEF IND IMP date ONE FLORIN.
 

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