1964 Florin For A Very Special 45th Birthday

The coin will also make an interesting topic of conversation when meeting with friends. Most certainly it will bring back pleasurable memories of bygone times.

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The Florin as Two Shillings and with a value of One Tenth of a Pound was first minted in 1849 and was the first step of an incredibly long journey towards decimalisation which took place on February 15th 1971.

There have been some extremely interesting designs since that first florin of Queen Victoria's reign - the so called 'godless florin' - and the later gothic florins which had the date in Roman Numerals, through the many designs introduced under later monarchs. The actual name 'florin' ceased to be included in the legend following the reign of King George the Fifth when it was replaced by 'Two Shillings'.

As coins of the realm there had been florins before both on the continent and in here in Britain. In the 14th century under Edward the Third we had a gold florin worth six shillings and eight pence. You would need to mortgage your house to purchase one of these should one ever appear on ebay.