Farthing Sparrow’s Discovery

Posted by Marjorie Ainsborough Decker text© 2011 on Mar 10th, 2012

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Greetings on this beautiful Spring Day, Yesterday, I was looking through some keepsake English coins.  I came across a weathered farthing like the ones I used as a child in England. Do you know what a farthing is?  It’s a fourth of a penny.  Yet this humble little coin had purchasing power in its [...]