Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Edward VII, George V, George VI and Elizabeth II each had a single obverse for the farthings produced during their respective reigns. Over the long reign of Queen Victoria, two different obverses were used. The farthing of 1860 carried the so-called "bun head", or "draped bust" of Queen Victoria on the obverse.
Alan John Farthing CVO FRCOG (born 1963) is a British gynaecologist, head of the department for gynaecological cancer at Imperial College, and on the list of honorary staff at the King Edward VII's Hospital. [1] He served as Surgeon-Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Household.
The funeral for the late Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19 September, after Her Majesty died on Thursday 8 September, aged 96.. The Queen will be reunited with her ...
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She had been queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was the monarch of 15 realms at her death.
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.
Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her coronation, Buckingham Palace, 1953. The Print Collector/Getty Images At the age of 25, Queen Elizabeth II — then known as Princess Elizabeth — pledged to ...
Queen Elizabeth II: St Edward's Crown: 17.4 mm 1 mm 1.78 g Bronze: Smooth 1971 1984 Five pence* Queen Elizabeth II: Crowned Thistle 23.59 mm 1.7 mm 5.65 g Cupronickel: Milled 1968 1990 Ten pence* Crowned Lion 28.5 mm 1.85 mm 11.31 g 1992 Fifty pence* Seated Britannia alongside a Lion 30.0 mm 2.5 mm 13.5 g Smooth, Reuleaux heptagon 1969 1997