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Dawson my son and I have gone to 3 different shops and he searches the bins and I have come up with a Farthing for him. He likes the birds on the coin. I think they are kind of cool so now I have bought two of them. 1953 and 1949. Now I have none of them as he has acquired them and loves them. My question is what years were these produced? Thanks in Advance
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Farthings go all the way back to the middle ages, when they were tiny silver coins. But the small copper ones with the bird date from the period of the reigns of George VI and Elizabeth II: from 1937 every year up to when the farthing was stopped in 1956.

There are four different obverse types of these "wren farthings": George VI IND:IMP (KM# 843), George VI no IND: IMP (KM# 867), Elizabeth II BRIT: OMN (KM 881) and Elizabeth II no BRIT: OMN (KM# 895).
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SAP Thanks for the info. I am going to start a collection for him in these. Now he will have to keep looking at stuff in the bargin bins when we go to the shops.
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They are a lovely cheap series. You could probably get all 20 of them for around a hundred dollars in uncirculated condition.

So they should be nice and cheap in circulated condition from bargain bins!

A nice round number to collect too. Hope he has fun!
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