Queen Anne Farthings

Thanks, Paddy! Yes, I should have written that the only examples I can find are made of copper AND EXPENSIVE. That's what got me looking for alternatives in the first place. I put these prohibitively expensive copper ones that I was finding together with what I had read which was that the Anne farthings were minted in other metals, including tin, AND with what I assumed contemporary counterfeiters would have used (i.e., copper AND tin), I put all that together and it added up that tin examples would be (or at least would have been at some point) available. But I can find no evidence in the auction records (London Coins, ebay, Stacks, Heritage...) that this is so. Unless I'm missing something.

Because I am new to all this and want to learn as much as I can, I need to ask: can I assume from the soft details of yours and the somewhat pitted surfaces, that they are cast counterfeits? As in the ones with the seam along the edge?

Here is an excerpt from the Peck article that I alluded to above:

...With this short account of the various factors and events which retarded
our first essays in coining copper, we are in a better position to consider
two important statements concerning the Anne patterns and also several
pertinent facts that have emerged from an examination of a large number of
specimens, all of which must be reconciled before any worth-while classifica
tion can be drawn up...

2. The existence of these patterns—especially the farthings—in metals other
than copper, in quantities which seem hardly consistent with the Mint's
preoccupation with these experiments.
3. The fact that all the farthings on the medium and small-size flans occur only
in copper, and always have the edge plain, whereas all those in gold, silver,
and tin occur only on the large-diameter flans, and have the edge either
striated or clumsily filed...

Two other points I want to make is that Peck mentions that Sir Isaac Newton was also experimenting with lead as he prepared for the new Anne coinage. Brass too, apparently.

And here is a link to the tin farthing at the British Museum:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/colle...ect/C_E-5611

(BTW, Paddy, Thank you for indulging me and this rabbit hole I find myself down.)

Colin Cooke had one of the best privately owned farthing collections outside of the British Museum. Here's a link to the Queen Anne coins he had which might offer some insight:

https://www.colincooke.com/ccc_queenanne

LOTS of insight! Thanks, Kipster!