Farthing Details:

• Diameter : 22mm Weight : 4.7g
• Mintage - 591,360   
• Value ranges from £4.00 - £140.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)

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Obverse A - Normal	Reverse 2 - Stop after DEF
Obverse Design: Victoria's bust facing left, abbreviated legend is as follows: VICTORIA DEI GRATIA (Victoria by the Grace of God)	Reverse Design: Seated Britannia facing right, holding a shield and trident, legend as follows: BRITANNIAR: REG: FID: DEF: (Queen of Britains, Defender of the Faith)

Varieties

• Thereare 2 known varieties of this coin

What Happened in 1838?

• Wheatstone's Stereoscope shows pictures in 3-D.
  Morse exhibits an electric telegraph in the U.S.
  Daguerre-Niépce method begins photography craze.
  First British Consulate opened in Jerusalem.
  English translation of Immanuel Kant "The Critique of Pure Reason* [orig 1781 ]
  Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed from their homeland in the Appalachian Mountains.
  By now every eastern state of the USA but Vermont has railroads.
  Charles Knight patented a method of colour printing with four blocks rotated and impressed in turn on to a sheet of paper