Great Britain 1955 farthing

formerly in the Mountain Groan Collection

This type was struck 1954-56 in comparatively small numbers but was extensively saved. It is common today in all grades. The farthing, after centuries of intermittent production, was terminated in 1956, inflation having ended its usefulness. The farthing was demonetized in 1960.

Recorded mintage: 5,779,200 plus a few proofs.

Specification: 2.83 g, bronze, 20 mm diameter, designed by Mary Gillick and George Krueger-Gray.

Catalog reference: KM 895, S-4159.

Source:

• Bressett, Kenneth E., A Guide Book of English Coins, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1962.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Peck, C. Wilson, English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958, 2nd Ed., London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
• Skingley, Philip, ed., Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 46th edition, London: Spink & Son, 2011.
• Lobel, Richard, Mark Davidson, Allan Hailstone and Eleni Calligas, Coincraft's Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins, 1066 to Date, London: Coincraft, 1995.

Link to:

• 1954 farthing
• 1955 sixpence
• 1956 farthing
• 1956 half penny
• 1956 threepence
• 1956 shilling, English reverse
• 1956 shilling, Scottish reverse
• 1956 florin
• 1956 half crown
• Coins and currency dated 1955
• return to coins of Great Britain