Queen Victoria Young Head Farthing 1849
Farthing Details:
- Diameter : 22mm Weight : 4.7g
- Mintage - 645,120
- Value ranges from £35.00 - £550.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)
- I haven't got one of this date - please contact me if you have one to sell. Must be good quality.
Varieties
- There are 4 known varieties of this coin
What Happened in 1849?
- mar 03 - Minnesota joins the United States
The photographic slide.
|FINLAND| Second, larger edition of the Kalevala is published by Elias Lonnrot.
Californian Gold Rush. Great Britain proclaims Vancouver Island a Crown Colony.
Attempts to create an all-German union collapses.
Prussian state telegraph service established
Julius Reuter's news agency uses homing pigeons to bridge the Aachen/Brussels gap between the German (Berlin-Aachen) and French (Paris-Brussels) telegraph lines.
Edgar Allan Poe [b.1809] dies
Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy
Joseph Fry makes the first chocolate bar