Farthing Details:

• Diameter : 22mm Weight : 4.7g
• Mintage - 3,879,720   
• Value ranges from £5.00 - £160.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)

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Obverse B - High 4	Reverse 2 - Normal
Obverse B - High 4	Reverse 1 - Normal
Obverse A - Normal	Reverse 2 - 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 4 known varieties of this coin.

What Happened in 1847?

• feb - Thomas Alva Edison, US inventor, born.
  mar - Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone, born.
  dec - Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaperman is born.
  x - A Philadelphia newspaper rolls off a rotary printing press.
  x - First use of telegraph as business tool.
  x - |England| Bakewell constructs a "copying telegraph."
  x - Ireland's potato famine ends.
  x - The Bronte sisters publish; Jane Eyre by Charlotte and Wuthering Heights by Emily
  x - Christian VIII of Denmark dies and Frederik becomes king.
  x - Concern over the stability in the Helstat grows.
  x - Otto von Bismarck starts his political life as a substitute delegate to the Prussian United Diet.
  x - 4,000 miles of telegraph lines in Britain, established by the Electrical Telegraph Co.
  x - |Paris| 500,000 photographic plates are sold
  x - Marinioni's machine automatically printing the verso and recto of each sheet came into service in France for the newspaper La Presse.