Well we have moved house this week .....to next door !
How lucky is that ? anyway after nearly 2 weeks of packing and a week of humping storage crates, boxes and bags of rubbish (ahem important possessions)
I couldn't resist the call to the back garden any longer.
20 foot from a 15 century Chapel and 100 foot from a Doomsday mill site the garden has to have something interesting surely.!
Sure enough the first find in the newly turned border was a minty 5 pence 1991. The second find was another coin this time a Georgian so with the sun roasting my back I went indoors to give it a light clean and guess what I'd found ?
A very nice William the turd & Mary ll 1694 copper farthing no less!...
It should clean up quite nicely as there appears to be full detail considering the definition on these rare coins were notoriously poor. had it been a tin farthing (exceedingly rare ) they go for 4x figures in good condition and even these copper farthings fetch £375+ in good condition
There were four different obverses and three different reverses
designs issued for the William & Mary farthings. Previously produced in tin to promote the mining industry with a copper plug in the centre to reduce forgeries
The farthing was reintroduced in copper in 1694 so this coin would have been one of the first . Poor old Queen Mary died in 1694 so very few copper coins were minted with dual heads which makes this little coin all the rarer.
