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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tonyclayton, post: 1469717, member: 4029&quot;]People had been passing bright new farthings off as half sovereigns, which are about the same size!</p><p>Indeed, they used half sovereign obverse dies for farthings when they had deteriorated a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>They stopped darkening them when gold coins went out of use in 1918. Darkened 1918 farthings are scarce and worth much more than bright ones in the same grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an example of an almost uncirculated 1916 farthing:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]184728.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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