1873 Victoria Gothic Florin

A very collectable silver “Gothic’ Florin of Queen Victoria dated 1873 with the die number of 83 shown just below the bust on the obverse side, with the year in roman numerals as mdcccclxxiii with no stop after the date. The obverse features the bust type B3, with the crowned young head of the queen facing left, and the reverse shows the crowned cruciform shields with the floriated cross at the centre, the national flower emblems represented in the angles. This coin slabbed and graded by NGC corporation as MS 63, equivalent to UK as Uncirculated. This florin commonly known as the ‘Gothic’ type, is due to the gothic style script writing to both sides of the coin. These florins have many varieties with the added collectability of die numbers making a very numismatically interesting series to collect.