Farthings

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by De Orc, Nov 11, 2007.

  1. De Orc

    De Orc Well-Known Member

    Well I have just started to list my Farthings on Omnicoin, for those of you who dont understand the old British system a Farthing was 1/4 of 1 penny and was symbolised like this 1/2d

    1672
    1/4d Farthing
    Seated Britannia
    King Charles II

    I have tried to lighten the image on this first one to bring out the date, it can be seen quite well in hand but not so well when scanned

    1700
    1/4d Farthing
    Seated Britannia
    King William III

    1747
    1/4d Farthing
    Seated Britannia
    King George II

    1754
    1/4d Farthing
    Seated Britannia
    King George II

    1773
    1/4d Farthing
    Seated Britannia
    King George III

    1799
    1/4d Farthing
    Soho mint Birmingham
    Seated Britannia
    King George III

    1806
    1/4d Farthing
    Soho mint Birmingham
    Seated Britannia
    King George II
     
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  3. luc87

    luc87 Lmcoins

    thats old!
     
  4. De Orc

    De Orc Well-Known Member

    Not realy, I have some Celtic coins that pre date it by some thousand years or so :D oh and some Greek :thumb:
     
  5. De Orc

    De Orc Well-Known Member

    Have just added quite a few more including a few rather nice ones :D

    1874
    1/4d Farthing
    Heaton mint Birmingham
    Seated Britannia
    Queen Victoria

    1875
    1/4d Farthing
    Heaton mint Birmingham
    Seated Britannia
    Queen Victoria

    1876
    1/4d Farthing
    Heaton mint Birmingham
    Seated Britannia
    Queen Victoria

    1900
    1/4d Farthing
    Holed & gilded
    Seated Britannia
    Queen Victoria

    I think it was possibly worn as a love token but who realy knows :D
     
  6. luc87

    luc87 Lmcoins

    those ones arent that old.
     
  7. De Orc

    De Orc Well-Known Member

    What would you class as old? to my way of thinking if something has been around for over a Hundred years then it is old, but as I did not claim they were old I fail to understand the meaning of your comment. Perhaps you would like to explain it's relavence to the coins in question :thumb:
     
  8. luc87

    luc87 Lmcoins

    18th century and under.
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