Florin Coin Earrings

For the woman who carries Florence on her shoulders, not on her wrist.

These 18k yellow gold Florin coin drop earrings are a wearable tribute to the Fiorino d'Oro, the gold florin minted in Florence from 1252 onward and the currency that turned the city into the financial capital of the Renaissance. Each reversible coin shows the Giglio of Florence, the lily, on one face and Saint John the Baptist, the city's patron saint, on the reverse. The coins are framed by a polished twisted rope border and suspended from a secure lever-back closure. The metal is solid 18k Italian gold, struck with the 750 millesimal mark and the registered Italian provincial hallmark that identifies authentic provincial goldsmithing.

The Florin is the original Florentine signature, the coin that taught medieval Europe to trust Italian gold. The double-face medal as jewelry was perfected on the Ponte Vecchio after 1593, when the Medici officially registered the bridge as the home of the goldsmith's trade, as a way for women to carry the city's two prayers, civic and spiritual, in a single piece of gold worn close to the face. The reverence is in the detail.

This is the earring for the woman who has been to Florence once and never quite left. The pair that turns a city into a private talisman.

It reads heritage. It reads art. It reads as Florence in miniature.

Sourced from the boutiques of Ponte Vecchio, Florence. Solid 18k yellow gold, 750 millesimal fineness, with the registered Italian provincial hallmark. DDP worldwide delivery, fully insured, duties paid before the earrings leave Florence. Perfect Fit Guarantee included.