hello. yeah ive had maybe 50 old coins passed on to me. ive identified everyone but this one, i cant find photos or similarities. i can work out the word shilling on the right hand side, but no other shillings match up to the tails side. as they all have a horizontal positioning of the emblands. any help or info would be greatly appreciated ")
oh nice. thanks for that, its identified. i cant really single it out of searches though. maybe do you know? like ive just looked up florin shillings and there is two types in the same time line.. what makes them different
I'm not sure if I understand your question, but the confusion might be that a shilling is one type of coin and a florin is another type that is worth two shillings.
when looking for info on that one coin. if i look up for one florin or two shilling, then there is no different information between the issue that i have or the other ones
The term "florin" was synonymous with "Two Shillings". They were introduced in Britain in 1849. It was actually the first attempt to decimalise the monetary system as it was one tenth of a pound. (The earlier gothic florins actually had "one tenth pound" on them. Prior to that the closest coin in value was the Half Crown, which was one eighth of a pound. The term florin came from a much earlier medieval coin (which was gold and worth much more than two shillings) and that came from European coins called florins in history. The florin continued in use until formal decimalisation in 1971 when it was replaced by the 10p coin - same size and value.
