1920 AD George V Silver Florin - a Choice, Extremely Fine Example

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This is a worn but very collectable George VSilverFlorin (Two Shillings) struck in 1920 AD at the Royal Mint, London (.500 Silver) Weight / Diameter / Thickness 11.3gm / 28.3 mm / 2.30mm Attribution: KM#817a Obverse: Bearded head of George V, facing left. Legend: GEORGIVS V D.G.BRITT:OMN:REX F.D.IND.IMP: B.M. Engraver: Edgar Bertram Mackennal Reverse:Cross of maces, quartiled with crowned shields bearing heraldic devices of the countries of the United Kingdom: legend and date surrounding. Legend: ONE FLORIN - 19 20 - Historical Notes : The British Silver FlorinThe name 'Florin' was first colloquially applied (in 13th-century Italy) to a Florentine gold coin: and the name went on to be (rather inappropriately) applied to several other European coins in subsequent centuries. Amongst these was the British two shilling coin , which was issued from 1849 until 1967. Originally composed of .925 silver (later reduced to .500 silver) the British florin was worth one tenth of a pound sterling, or twenty-four old pence. In 1968, in the run-up to British decimalization, the two shilling coin was nominally superc eded by the decimal ten pence coin, which had the same value and initially the same size and weight. (Historic issues continued in circulation alongside the ten pence coin until 1993, when the florin was demonetized, and the 10p was reduced in size). King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. He was the second son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), and the grandson of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria. From the time of his birth, he was third in the line of succession behind his father and his elder brother, Price Abert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. From 1877 to 1891, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On the death of his grandmother in 1901, George's father became King-Emperor of the British Empire, and George was made Price of Wales. He succeeded his father in 1910. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar. As a result of the First World War (1914–18), the empires of his first cousins - Tsar Nicholas of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany - fell: while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a concession to anti-German public sentiment. His reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish Republicanism and the Indian Independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape. The Parliament Act of 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. In 1924 he appointed the first Labour Administration and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the newly-titled British Commonwealth of Nations. He was plagued by illness throughout much of his later reign and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII - and (shortly thereafter) George VI. - Notes provided with grateful acknowl edgements to Numista, Britroyals and Wikipaedia - read more

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