Queen Victoria Young Head Farthing 1859
Farthing Details:
- Diameter : 22mm Weight : 4.7g
- Mintage - 1,290,240
- Value ranges from £35.00 - £180.00 depending on condition and type (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)
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| Obverse A - Normal | Reverse 2 - Detached Shamrock |
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 2 known varieties of this coin.
What Happened in 1859?
- feb 14 - Oregon becomes the 33th state of the United States
jun 24 - Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns) Sardinia and Napoleon III of France defeat Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary in northern Italy
jul 11 - A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published
sep 17 - Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself "Emperor of These United States"
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
John Stuart Mill publishes On Liberty
Camera gets a wide-angled lens.
French designer Brutus de Villeroi builds a 33-foot-long treasure- hunting submarine for Philadelphia financier Stephen Girard.
Karl_XV succeeds Oskar I as Swedish King
The Sinaiticus codex was found by Dr. Tischendorf on his third visit to the monastery of Santa Katerina, on Mount Sinai
Bernhard Riemann formulates the Riemann hypothesis one of most important open problems of contemporary mathematics
Solar flares first observed on the Sun by English astronomer Richard Carrington.