Notes and Queries/Series 7/Volume 5/Number 112/The Florin
The Florin.—This is taken verbatim from the Times of Wednesday, June 15, 1887. Will you insert it in ‘N. & Q.,’ for what it is worth to numismatology?—
“In the interesting historical remarks which recently appeared in the Times on the subject of our coinage no notice was made as to the authorship of the ‘florin’ now in use. During a conversation I had with the late William Dyce, R.A., on the subject of coins—not long before he died—he remarked to me, ‘It seems little known that the “florin” was engraved from a design of mine.’—John R. Clayton.”
It would not be out of place to have recorded here the names of the designers of the Jubilee coins, much maligned, praised, and talked about, now being in course of circulation. There was an article on them in Murray’s Magazine early in its first year of publication (1887). I am astonished this fact of the florin has not before found its corner in ‘N. & Q.’ Herbert Hardy.