Queen Anne Farthings

harasha

About a year ago, I obtained a collection of about 165 farthings, almost no duplicates. Date range 1672 to 1956. After reading the recent post about the Queen Anne farthing, I checked my collection, and sure enough, no Queen Anne farthing! Are they really that difficult to obtain?

tbirde56

Queen Anne's reign was 1702-14.

coachleonard

I'm looking for a Queen Anne Farthing myself. They do turn up on ebay from time to time-- maybe one every two or three weeks appears. Some are old cast copies that may or may not be contemporary with the real thing. I'm not sure what the deal was with these farthings--- at first it was rumored that only a handful were struck, but now it's said that they are very scarce but not super rare. I'm not sure if they were struck as patterns then released into circulation, or if jthere was just a small mintage of official Anne farthings.
They're all dated 1714 I believe.

Lloyd

Colin Cooke Link (As Usual For Farthing Questions)

The trouble with trading Queen Anne Farthings is that it's easy to get an example but it costs an arm and a leg.

Also forgeries are a problem but usually the join can be seen on the rim.....

Pecks book gives an excellent read about rewards of £500 etc for finding an example.... (a few hundred years ago that is). Hence the number of forgeries.

Lloyd

lordmarcovan

What Lloyd said. You can find a 1714 farthing occasionally, but they'll cost you, and you have to watch out for fakes. I believe they were never officially released into circulation. (Though there are certainly circulated examples out there now.)

Lloyd

I sense an opportunity for another SSP but the point is this....

If someone gives me a week and £20K to get Queen Anne Farthings I would probably spend most of the money and come home with a 12 - 20 examples.

If someone sent me out to get one of these 1771 Farthing, I might well come home empty handed unless I offered a collector a silly amount.

Yet the cheapest Q Anne variety will cost me 6 times more than the 1771.

I really worry about expensive coins that are readily available.

Think on

L
(everyone searches Ebay and finds 12 1771's)

coinkat

great thread with some excellent responses. The Queen ANNE FARTHINGS are difficult, but not impossible.