1853 Gothic florin WITH stop after date

[david.bordeaux 166]

Does this exist? Anybody got one or seen one? It has been listed since The Milled SIlver Coinage of England (Spink, 1925) and appears in "old" ESC as 807B and the current edition of Bull as 2825 (with rarity R3). Davies lists it as 723 but with an asterisk to indicate "to be confirmed".

I suspect it is one of those errors that have been copied and pasted from the 1925 book (like the 1887 florin with 34 arcs).

Dickinson wrote in 1978 and 1980 (Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin) that the 1853 florin with a stop after the date was "unlikely to exist" and I am inclined to agree.

[Iannich48 201]

I have not got, or seen one of these either.  It might exist I guess, but who knows?

[Martinminerva 294]

I believe too it doesn't exist. As has been said before on this and other gothic florin threads, there are an awful lot of mistakes in the catalogues and listings for this series that just keep being perpetuated (eg the Bull reference)!

[Bruce 180]

I also haven't seen one before.

[Peckris 2 2,102]

I've seen this in my copy of Spink 1925 - it could simply be a printing error, as there isn't a listing for 1853 without a stop after the date.