Farthing Details:

• Diameter : 22mm Weight : 4.7g
• Mintage - 1,720,320  
• Value ranges from £30.00 - £180.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)

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Obverse H - Small date As obverse D but without the repunched 1 (datal figures 5 & 8 closer) This is the only one so far of this type.	Reverse 1 - Shamrock head detached
	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 17 known varieties of this coin.

What Happened in 1858?

• feb 11 - The Virgin Mary appears to St. Bernadette of Lourdes
  mar 19 - |China| Dominent figure in the "Hundred days of Reform" Kang Youwei is born [d.mar 31 1927].
  may 11 - Minnesota becomes the 32nd state in the United States
  jun 16 - Lincoln gives his famous "House Divided" speech.
  jul - |AUSTRALIA| Melbourne and Adelaide linked by electric telegraph
  aug 05 - The first underwater telegraph cable laid between America and Europe. Queen Victoria exchanges epic messages with President Buchanan, but the system is experiences problems so it takes 16.5 hrs to transmit the first message. The system fails totally on sep 01, 1858.
  oct - |AUSTRALIA| Sydney and Melbourne were linked by telegraph
  The British government takes over the rule of India.
  Russia and China sign the Treaty of Aygun extending Russian trading rights.
  Hyman Lipman of Philadelphia and Joseph Rechendorfer of New York City both patent the idea of putting an eraser on the end of a pencil
  Gold is discovered in the Central Fraiser River and Cariboo Mountains.
  Mail boxes appear on American streets.
  An aerial photograph is taken.
  Automatic telegraph, patented in Britain by Charles Wheatstone. The transmission speed is up to 400 words per minute.
  ABC Telegraph, known as 'the communicator', using two dials to indicate sent/received letters of alphabet, patented in Britain by Charles Wheatstone. The system becomes used on thousand of private lines in Britain since it does not require a trained operator.