Is This A Genuine 1887 British Double Florin ?

An EF example, with patination. These quite ofrten turn up in about this condition, or a little less, because they did not see much circulation. There is a tiny amount of wear on the high points of the design, which, with many examples, were not fully struck up at these points. I look for detail in the lions' faces.

They were known as the 'Barmaid's curse', because in a dimly lit pub in the late eighties or early nineties of Victorian Great Britain, they were too easily mistaken for a Crown, with a 20% loss to the poor barmaid.

The catalogue value for these is around 40 pounds.