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The English farthing (derived from the Anglo-Saxon feorthing, a fourthling or fourth part) [1] was a coin of the Kingdom of England worth 1 ⁄ 4 of a penny, 1 ⁄ 960 of a pound sterling. Until the 13th century, farthings were pieces of pennies that had been cut into quarters to make change.
1714 Anne farthing. The British farthing is a continuation of the farthing series begun in silver under the English king Henry III in the 13th century. Private individuals issued base metal farthing tokens as change in the 16th century, [2] [3] and in 1613, James I granted John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton, a monopoly to manufacture royal farthing tokens in copper bearing the king's ...
The farthing (from Old English fēorðing, from fēorða, a fourth) was a British coin worth one quarter of a penny, or 1 / 960 of a pound sterling. Initially minted in copper, and then in bronze, it replaced the earlier English farthing. Between 1860 and 1971, the farthing's purchasing power ranged between 12p and 0.2p in 2017 values. [1]
Historically, the British farthing was a continuation of the English farthing, a coin struck by English monarchs prior to the Act of Union 1707 that was worth a quarter of an old penny (1 ⁄ 960 of a pound sterling). Only pattern farthings were struck under Queen Anne.
Coins of the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) Pages in category "Coins of Great Britain" ... Farthing (British coin) Five guineas (British coin) G. Groat ...
During the reign of Charles II, Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 1672 (see Depiction on British coinage and postage stamps below). With the constitutional unification of England with Scotland in 1707 and then with Ireland in 1800, Britannia became an increasingly important symbol and a strong rallying point ...
The most notable feature was the introduction of a copper farthing to help with the problem of small change. With inflation, the penny continued to become a less important denomination . The first coinage, of 1603–4, shows a bust of the king facing right with the inscription I D G ROSA SINE SPINA on the obverse, and a shield including the ...
To counteract the large numbers of underweight, counterfeit copper [2] halfpennies and farthings circulating in 18th-century Britain, Section 6 of the Counterfeiting Coin Act 1741 made it a crime, punishable by 2 years' imprisonment, to “make, coin or counterfeit any brass or copper money, commonly called a halfpenny or a farthing”; this act was followed by the even stricter Counterfeiting ...