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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |United Kingdom| > UK91914
Great Britain, Victoria, 20 June 1837 - 22 January 1901
|United| |Kingdom|, |Great| |Britain,| |Victoria,| |20| |June| |1837| |-| |22| |January| |1901
|, The British farthing (derived from the Old English feorthing, a fourth part) was worth a quarter of an old penny (1/960 of a pound sterling). It ceased to be struck after 1956 and was demonetized from 1 January 1961.

1860 mintage: approximately 2,867,200 (including all varieties); designer: Leonard Wyon.
UK91914. Bronze farthing, SCBC 3958; bun head, tooth, five berry variety, aEF, some marks, plain edge, London mint, weight 2.798g, maximum diameter 20mm, die axis 0o, 1860; obverse VICTORIA D: G: BRITT: REG: F: D. (Victoria, by the grace of God, Queen of the British Territories, Defender of the Faith), laureate and draped bust of Queen Victoria left, hair in a bun, wreath of 15 leaves and 5 berries, tiny L C WYON on drapery at shoulder, toothed border with linear circle; reverse FARTHING, Britannia seated right on rocks, helmeted, right hand resting on Union shield at side, trident in left hand, in the background a lighthouse to the left, and ship to the right, tiny 1860 below, toothed border with linear circle; SOLD










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