Collection / Bronze Farthing

BF1918b

Bronze Farthing, 1918

Recorded as a coin that exists. No example of it is in the collection.

Type

BF Bronze Farthing

Year

1918

Mint

Royal Mint, ordinary issue

Variety

b

Mintage

19,362,818 struck

In the collection

Not held

Monarch

George V

Diameter

20 mm

Weight

2.8-2.9 g

Metal

Bronze (Copper 95%,Tin 4%,Zinc 1 %)

Reverse

Medal (↑↑)

The mintage is the striking's, not this variety's — the varieties were never counted separately. An issue may also have been struck more than once, so another variety of BF1918b may belong to a different striking from this one.

Obverse inscription

GEORGIVS V DEI GRA: BRITT: OMN: REX FID: DEF: IND: IMP:

Reverse inscription

FARTHING, Date

CC2000

G5FA-042 1 1

Gouby

BF1918 A -

Peck

P2330 2 A

Freeman

F597 2 A

About Farthings

1918-G5 3 A