British Farthings Small but Fun

hen we look at foreign coins, even hard core collectors of United States coinage sometimes find the British pennies to be a fascinating area to dig into. They were the size of a United States half dollar from the 1790s until they shrank in 1970. They display a parade of monarchs. And they are wonderfully inexpensive. But perhaps because these big coppers cast as big a shadow as they do, there are other series that stay hidden in that shadow. Let’s take a peek at one of those lesser collected series. Let’s look at the