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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 7656831, member: 109923&quot;]That is a beautiful portrait. Not only are they small but they&#039;re thin and get beaten up very easily. It took me a while to get any where she didn&#039;t look like she&#039;d had a horrific accident.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a penny but I have a few small Elizabeth I&#039;s and the engravers did pretty well on those too. This was the time when they wouldn&#039;t mint coins in copper, so they got extremely tiny and had to mint strange denominations (because farthings were impossible).</p><p><br /></p><p>I just wrote a post about how England finally ended up getting copper farthings <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/englands-first-coppers-or-how-britannia-married-her-royal-lovers-cousin.381773/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/englands-first-coppers-or-how-britannia-married-her-royal-lovers-cousin.381773/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/englands-first-coppers-or-how-britannia-married-her-royal-lovers-cousin.381773/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Elizabeth I Three Halfpence, 1561</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316359[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Tower. Silver, 0.71g. Third issue. Mintmark pheon, medium flan, large rose, small shield (S 2569).</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Elizabeth I Three Farthings, 1575</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316360[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Tower. Silver, 13mm, 0.39g. Third issue. Mintmark eglantine (S2571)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>They just gave up with portraits on the halfpenny.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Elizabeth I Halfpenny, 1582-1584</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316361[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Tower. Silver, 9mm, 0.24g. Sixth coinage. Portcullis. Mintmark A (S 2581).</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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