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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 481298, member: 66&quot;]As an interesting side note, in the 1890&#039;s Great Britain&nbsp; began issuing their farthings with a blackened finish so that unscrupulous people would not gold plate them and pass them off as half sovereigns being that they were the same size and had the same portrait on them.&nbsp; But to the best of my knowledge there is no contemporary evidence of anyone passing gold plated farthings either.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure but I think there are similar stories from some other countries around this same time period as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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