Queen Victoria Young Head Farthing 1855
Farthing Details:
- Diameter : 22mm Weight : 4.7g
- Mintage - 3,440,640
- Value ranges from £5.00 - £200.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)
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| Obverse A - WW Incuse | Reverse2 - Broken Shamrock, No Serif on B |
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 6 known varieties of this coin.
What Happened in 1855?
- mar 03 - |Russia| Alexander II becomes tsar. [u.1881] [re.List of Tsars]
jun 07 - |Crimean War| The outer defences of Sebastopol are assaulted
jun 18 - |Crimean War| The assaults on the Malakoff and the Redan fail
jun 28 - Lord Raglan dies.
aug 16 - |Crimean War| The Russian army under Prince Gortchakoff attempted to break through the Allied lines at the Traktir Bridge
sep 08 - |Crimean War| The Russians evacuated Sebastopol, having made a spirited defence which had kept the best troops in the world at bay for over eleven months.
nov - David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls
Printing telegraph invented in the U.S.
Prepayment of letters made compulsory.
Registered letters enter service.
James Maxwell unifies electricity and magnetism into a single theory, classical electromagnetism, thereby showing that light is an electromagnetic wave.