1 Florin - Victoria 3rd portrait (1893–1901)

One row for each year the 1 Florin - Victoria 3rd portrait was struck. Prices are medians of verified sold listings matched to that year from the listing: circulated is worn condition up to Extremely Fine, uncirculated is About Uncirculated or better. A count in brackets means fewer than three sales behind the figure; a grey figure marked "type" is the median across every year, shown where that year has no sale of its own yet; years with no sales yet fill in as sales are recorded. Most types have been searched year by year only since October 2026, so later years are still filling in. Use the grade table below for a price by condition across all years.

About the 1893 1 Florin - Victoria

The 1893 1 Florin - Victoria is a circulating 1 florin coin issued from 1893 to 1901, struck in 92.5% silver. It weighs 11.31g and measures 28.5mm across. Reverse design: Crown above shields of England, Scotland and Ireland with national flower emblems between, all within Garter with divided date below and legend around.

Mintage figures are recorded for 9 years between 1893 and 1901, 25,651,700 coins in all. 1893 is the scarcest date, with 1,666,100 struck. It is no longer legal tender (withdrawn 1993), so its value is to collectors only.

Common questions

History and design

Boehm's Jubilee portrait was unpopular, and in February 1891 a Committee on the Design of Coins was appointed. It chose Thomas Brock's veiled portrait of the Queen. The Royal Mint Museum records that the committee also proposed a different portrait for the florin, to tell it apart from the half crown, but the Queen dismissed the idea that anyone would look at the head to do so. Instead the florin was made slightly smaller, at 28.5 mm.

A proclamation of 30 January 1893, published in the London Gazette on 14 February, made the new designs current. The Old Head florin was struck every year to 1901, and Wikipedia notes that 1901-dated coins continued until Edward VII's coinage was ready in May 1902. Collector references give 1,666,103 for 1893, rising to 5,528,630 in 1900, about 25.65 million in all.

Brock's portrait shows the Queen in later life, with a small diadem partly covered by a veil, and his initials TB below the truncation. The legend VICTORIA DEI GRA BRITT REGINA FID DEF IND IMP was the first on British coins to include IND IMP, Empress of India.

The reverse, by Edward Poynter, is set out in the proclamation as two royal sceptres in saltire behind three crowned shields bearing the arms of England, Scotland and Ireland. Between them are the rose, thistle and shamrock, with the Garter and its motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE beneath, and the words ONE FLORIN TWO SHILLINGS with the date. The edge is milled.

Collecting notes

The 1893 florin was also struck as a proof for that year's proof sets. Tony Clayton finds 1894 and 1901 slightly harder to locate than the other dates, and none of the nine years had fewer than 1.6 million coins struck. The sterling silver content (.925) is the same as on all Victorian florins.

Florins were treated as 10p from 1971 and were demonetised at the end of June 1993. The Edward VII florin that followed had a standing Britannia instead, chosen to make it as unlike the half crown as possible. The matching coin of this reign is the Old Head half crown.