Farthing Details:

1. Diameter : 22mm, Weight : 4.71g
2. Mintage 1,935,360 
3. Value ranges from £4.00 - £300.00 depending on condition (Source Collectors Coins GB 2009)

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1831 | 1834 | 1835 | 1836 | 1837

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	Incuse line on Saltire
	Raised line on Saltire
Obverse Design: William's bust facing right, date below bust, abbreviated legend is as follows: GULIELMUS IIII DEI GRATIA (William by the Grace of God)	Reverse Design: Seated Britannia facing right, holding a shield and trident, abbreviated legend is as follows: BRITANNIAR: REX: FID: DEF: (King of the Britains, Defender of the Faith)

Varieties

There are 3 known varieties of this coin.

• What Happened in 1834?

• Edgar Degas born in Paris.
• Babbage conceives the analytical engine, forerunner of the computer.
  The Spanish Inquisition ends.
  The Poor Law Amendment Act is passed in Great Britain.
  Charles Babbage completes his drawings for a mechanical computer. The work on the project, privately financed by Babbage himself and carried out in association with Lady Ada Lovelace, is stopped by his death, in 1871 
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, philosopher, newspaper writer, and teacher, dies