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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 891587, member: 5682&quot;]Thanks for everyone&#039;s input.</p><p><br /></p><p>A surprisngly good source of information about farthings is this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthing_(British_coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthing_(British_coin" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farthing_(British_coin</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if this part is entirely correct:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But I once saw a 1897 farthing PCGS MS-something that was the ugliest black thing. I really thought PCGS had blown that call. Only later did I realize they were intentionally darkened so they wouldn&#039;t be confused with gold coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question for the farthing experts:</p><p><br /></p><p>Why is the 1724 flan bigger than the 1722 flan? I know the 1717 farthing is smaller (called the &quot;dump farthing&quot;). I&#039;ve never read that the 1724 farthing was larger.</p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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