Farthing Details:

• Diameter : 20mm Weight : 2.84g
• Mintage - 1,790,000 
• Value ranges from £2.00 - £70.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)

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Obverse B - Broken F in F:D	Reverse 1 Normal
Obverse Design: Victoria's bust facing left, abbreviated legend is as follows: VICTORIA D:G: BRITT: REG: F:D: (Victoria by the Grace of God, Queen of Britains, Defender of the Faith)	Reverse Design: Seated Britannia facing right, holding a shield and trident, with the word "FARTHING" above, and the date below.

Varieties

• There are 2 known varieties of this coin.

What Happened in 1882?

• Nikola Tesla conceives the rotating magnetic field principle and uses it to invent the alternating current generator/motor.
• First International Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins.
• Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of the transcendentality of pi.
• The Married Women's Property Act 1882 in Britain enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings.
• Zulu king Cetshwayo returns to South Africa.
• A peace treaty is signed between Paraguay and Uruguay.
• The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded (now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys).
• The Personal Liberty League is established to oppose the temperance movement in the United States.
• Carolyn Merrick is elected president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
• St Andrew's Ambulance Association in Glasgow, Scotland, and St. John Ambulance in Canada are founded.
• Founding of:
  • Waterloo Rugby Club
  • Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (as Hotspur F.C.)
  • Albion Rovers F.C. (though the amalgamation of two Coatbridge clubs, Albion and Rovers)
  • Queens Park Rangers F.C.
  • Burnley F.C.
  • Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club
• Redruth Mining School opens.
• Pogroms in Southern Russia end.