Double Florin Victorian Era Coin

I like the double florins too.
This is a worn example of a very common date. I hope you didn't pay too much for it.

I live in Brazil, and here everything is expensive... , in a better grade it would be close to 269 dollars.

Did you know that this coin was nicknamed "barmaid's ruin"? This is because the coin is very similar to a crown, worth 5 shillings instead of four. Dishonest people would hand over a double florin to buy drinks, and when they received change would insist they had given a crown, thus gaining a shilling extra at the expense of the barmaid.

To give you an idea of value, just after ww2 my dad was receiving 8 shillings a day for a whole day's work labouring. The loss of a single shilling would have been painful, and this was about 50 years after this coin was circulating.

Anaximander, Thank you very much for the information :) , I Didn't know about that, I'am history major myself and love the UK history.

ok I will :), I need to photograph them first

but here is one of them

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee 20 June 1887—the fiftieth anniversary of her ascension to the throne of the British Monarchy,
The 1887 double florin only had a mintage of 483,000
The double florin as pictured appears to have been polished but is still a nice piece of British history