Medieval English Hammered Farthings - Richard III

This online guide is designed to help

• Metal Detector enthusiasts
• Museum Curators
• Coin Dealers & Collectors

accurately identify and classify their English Hammered Farthings.

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Overview:

A brief reign, with only one type of farthing identified.

Typical examples of these coins are unevenly struck on undersized flans.

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Date: 1483-1485
Mint: London
Type: Standard

Diameter: unrecorded
Weight: 0.19g

Obverse: RICARDVS REX
    Mintmark of a boar's head.
Reverse: CIVITAS LOnDOn
    "Long Cross" with three pellets in each quarter.

Reference(s):
  S.2171A
  N. unlisted
Scarcity: Extrememly Rare

Guide Price:
  £750 (Fine)
  £1600 (Very Fine)

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Date: 1483-1485
Mint: London
Type: Standard

Diameter: 9mm (6mm i.d.)
Weight: 0.19g (3 grain¹)

Obverse: RICΛR DI GRA REX
    Mintmark of a halved "sun and rose".
Reverse: CIVITAS LOnDOn
    "Long Cross" with three pellets in each quarter.

Reference(s) *:
  W-IV. 1a
  S.2171A
  N. unlisted
Scarcity: Extrememly Rare

Guide Price:
  £750 (Fine)
  £1600 (Very Fine)

Sold by:

• A chipped but VF example of this coin (0.17g) was sold by Dix Noonan Webb for £950.
• An example of this coin (from the collection of Michael Wade) is in Withers: Small Change IV.

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¹ WITHERS, P & WITHERS, BR. 2004: Small Change IV: Farthings and Halfpennies of Richard III and Henry VII. (Galata).

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