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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 4606720, member: 109923&quot;]It&#039;s so hard to get one with a vaguely acceptable portrait, so you&#039;ve done well. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I like about Elizabeth&#039;s coins are the strange denominations. There&#039;s a three halfpence (the only others being for William IV and Victoria, and those were for Ceylon), and this, the three farthings (S. 2571), used to give change for things that cost a farthing, so you didn&#039;t have to cut the penny up:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141144[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>They didn&#039;t produce farthings because a silver coin would&#039;ve been too small (the three farthings is only 13mm and 0.39g), and they didn&#039;t want to stoop so low as to mint copper coins. This policy also resulted in my lightest coin, the silver halfpenny (1582-4, 9mm, 0.24g, S. 2581):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141147[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1141149[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That problem was remedied under the next monarch, James I (who&#039;d issued copper in Scotland), when they let private companies do the dirty work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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