CarlosSilver

Fawlty Towers is great but I was quite enjoying grown up coin geeks having a cyber spat. Now THAT is funny.

I have no strong opinions on the design but I would always recommend wearing at least a pair of pants when slaying dragons whilst riding a horse.

Thanks for the reply VickySilver. I've got a number of very small magnets that came with some excellent collar stiffeners.

Thanks Pete. I'll hunt that article out. These weigh 11.1gr so about right for a genuine florin.

The obverse

Hi all. I've been a lurker here for a while and decided it was time to join. I've recently started to collect silver pre decimal coins to go along with my bullion. So, here's my first post. I have two 1922 Florins. As you can see the grades differ significantly. I know, I know, the one on the right is only good for the bin. I was testing some bullion with a magnet and dropped it on one of these coins and it stuck. I checked the other one and it stuck to that one too. I'm no expert but these coins shouldn't be magnetic should they? The strange thing is that the magnet only sticks to part of the coins, at about 10 o'clock. Here's a picture if you need to see them. Do you reckon they are fake?