Farthing Details:

• Diameter : 22mm Weight : 4.7g
• Mintage - 2,580,480  
• Value ranges from £12.00 - £100.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)

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Obverse A - Normal	Reverse 1 - Normal
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

• There are 3 known varieties of this coin.

What Happened in 1846?

• jan 27 - Magnetic Telegraph Co. completes the link between New York and Philadelphia. The tariff is 25 cents per 10 words
  feb - Irish Potato Famine reaches its worst
  feb 19 - Texas formally joins the United States.
  mar 27 - Jerry Finney, 15-year resident of Columbus, Ohio hotels, is kidnapped for allegedly being a fugitive slave and is sent to bondage in Kentucky. Outraged, Columbus residents eventually raise money to buy his freedom.
  apr 25 - The Mexican-American War ?+ ignited as a result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war [1848] fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River.
  apr 27 - The first arrival of a train to Celje.
  jun 19 - first baseball game under recognizable modern rules.
  sep 23 - Discovery of Neptune by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle?.
  dec 28 - Iowa becomes the 29th U.S. State.
  |GERMANY| Zeiss begins manufacturing lenses.
  Double cylinder rotary press produces 8,000 sheets an hour.
  The Smithsonian Institute is founded in Washington.
  Britian repeals the Corn Laws.