Queen Victoria Young Head Farthing 1848
Farthing Details:
- Diameter : 22mm Weight : 4.7g
- Mintage - 1,290,246
- Value ranges from £5.00 - £120.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)
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| 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 1848?
- feb 23 - John Quincy Adams dies in the Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
mar 10 - Mexican-American War ends, expanding U.S. slave territory into Texas.
jul 19,20 - Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton call first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the "social, civil and religious rights of women."
nov - Zachary Taylor defeats Lewis Cass in the U.S. presidential election
Forerunner of the Associated Press is founded in New York.
William Kelvin proposes an absolute scale of temperature.
Khaki is first used as a milatary color in India.
Johannes Rebmann and Ludwig Krapf (Germany) are the first Europeans to discover Kilimanjaro
Revolutions in France, Austrian Empire, Italy, and Germany
Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto.
Gold is discovered in California.
At the urgings of the Eiderdanes, King Frederik of Denmark declares that Scleswig would be a full part of Denmark, having the same constition. The Germans in the area rebel setting up a provisional government for Schleswig-Holstein.
2,000 miles of telegraph lines in USA, established by the Magnetic Telegraph Co.
The first marriage is performed via telegraph, for a bride in Boston and groom in New York. The transaction, like other business contracts conducted through the wire, is legally binding.