The double florin, or four-shilling piece, was a British coin produced by the Royal Mint between 1887 and 1890. One of the shortest-lived of all British...
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The British florin, or two-shilling piece (2/– or 2s.), was a coin worth 1⁄10 of one pound, or 24 pence. It was issued from 1849 until 1967, with a final...
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The Double Florin is a 1924 thriller novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street. Like H.C. McNeile's Bulldog Drummond and Agatha...
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were valued at much more than the Victorian and later florin and double florin. The medieval florins were withdrawn within a year because they contained...
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Eighteen Pence(1/6d.) (British Ireland) Florin (2/–) Half crown (2/6d.) Thirty Pence(2/6d.) (British Ireland) Double florin (4/–) Crown (5/–) Six Shillings (6/-)...
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Decimal Day (section Shillings and florins)
the exception of the two shilling silver florin, first issued on 1849, worth 1/10 of a pound. A double florin or four shilling piece, introduced in 1887...
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Eighteen Pence(1/6d.) (British Ireland) Florin (2/–) Half crown (2/6d.) Thirty Pence(2/6d.) (British Ireland) Double florin (4/–) Crown (5/–) Six Shillings (6/-)...
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The double sovereign is a gold coin of the United Kingdom with a nominal value of two pounds sterling (£2). Rarely issued in the first century and a half...
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throughout Europe Florin Florin - Austria Florin - Aragon Florin - England Florin - Great Britain Double Florin - Great Britain Florin - Italy and Italian...
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use silver in place of gold resulted in the 1887 introduction of the double florin, but that coin lasted only four years. Also in 1887, a new obverse was...
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