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Victoria silver bronze high grade Sixpence 6d Penny Halfpenny George V ½d lustrous 1d Scarce copper aUNC Bun Head ¼d Farthing 2/6 Halfcrown 1887 decent grade 1/- Rare Shilling Edward VII UNC Veiled Head lovely grade 1844
Nice high grade with a decent lustre. Although minted with the Colonies in mind, these did circulate in Great Britain, but not for long. Even in 1843 there wasn't much you could buy for 1/1920th of a Pound!
A little scarcer, in my experience, than the Toothed Border farthing. More lustre on the obverse of this coin than on the reverse, but not a great deal of discernable wear on either side - only the usual weak strike around the exergue.
Although minted with the Colonies in mind, these did circulate in Great Britain, but not for long. Even in 1844 there wasn't much you could buy for 1/1920th of a Pound. This one has a slight titled E in REG, for those who like their microvarieties. I know I do.
Although this is a relatively common date, it's certainly not a common grade. Have a look round at some others, then come back and look at this one again.
These are very attractive little coins at this level. You can see why farthings have such a loyal following.
Issued for Malta as their "grano" was 3 to a farthing. Allow me to demonstrate the elegance of predecimal maths: there's 3 of these to a farthing, so 12 to a penny. Thus, there's 144 to a shilling, and 2,880 to the pound. 288,000 were minted = £100
Like a fool, I started this series filling dates, so it took me about half a dozen upgrades to get them this far. Should have gone straight in at this level, really. No reason not to. This example has a very weakly struck date.
I'd put this coin at the level you want to be looking at for perhaps your second upgrade. You snapped up a low grade 1869 a while back, because it was 1869, and you've upgraded it once since, but now it's starting to fall behind the others again. The colour is suggestive of an old clean, but it remains a very high grade coin.
A high level of detail and a very pleasant lustre. Nice.
Nice to be able to see every vein on every leaf in the wreath. It's a very good coin. I do like farthings.
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