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A 1733 Farthing With An H In Britannia

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While looking at a Farthing date set put together long ago, I noticed that a notation by the 1733 that BRITANNIA was mis-spelled BHITANNIA.

A search for a typical 1733 on the Web brought up this picture -

http://www.coindatabase.com/coin_de...?cdb=G040004

Please notice that here too, the R looks like an H.

Perhaps the legend on this type was put too close to the coin's edge?



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Here is a blown-up picture of the letter (R or H) from the site mentioned above -


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 Posted 05/16/2014  08:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add HawkHybrid to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
the r's look like the other r's in rex and george.

it may not be a mispelling.

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The 1733 EF on Colincookes site looks the same.I will check mine tonight.
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