Wren Farthings

[mrbrklyn]

I recently acquired a complete set of Wren Fathings in MS for cheap in a Whitman folder.  I broke them out of the folder and had them graded by ANACS.  It is a favorite design



http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/03_2022_anans_farthings/.cache/640x640-7387363_1939_farthing_o.jpg

Here is a write up on the series, not written by myself
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/wren.pdf

This is the resulting coins

http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/03_2022_anans_farthings/

[Deeman]

1937 uniface silver farthing.

[<k>]

Images © the Royal Mint Museum.


The wren design was originally intended for the silver 3 pence coin.

Harold Wilson Parker's designs of 1936 for a UK coinage of royal animals.

See: UK Royal Animals: Rejected Designs of 1936.

[mrbrklyn]

1937 uniface silver farthing.

New Zealand's 1937 Uniface Sterling Silver Patterns.