The coin dates to 1894, the year a set of masts were installed on HMS Victory A 127-year-old farthing has been discovered under the mast of Lord Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. The Victorian-era ...

When the new penny was first introduced, its spending power was close to that of a modern ten-pence piece; now it is closer in value to the old farthing at the time of that coin’s withdrawal.

The farthing was the smallest coin until 1960, except for a 27 year period in the mid-19th Century under Queen Victoria, when there was a half farthing.

The coin appears in relatively good condition, and now some fans think they have identified it as a Charles II farthing — A British coin which was produced during the king’s reign from 1660 to ...

The remarks do, however, raise a couple of other points worthy of consideration. The farthing coin was legal tender until 31 December, 1960 when it was deemed unusable due to an increasingly low ...