1676 farthing

[JLS]

I know this was reported by Batty (unreliable source if there ever was one), but it's not in Peck. 

What do people think of this piece ? Date doesn't look like anything else ! Probably a contemporary forgery ? 

[Rob]

That's a 1675

[JLS]

20 minutes ago, Rob said:

That's a 1675

Hmm, I just haven't seen any 1675's which look like this. If the last numeral is a 5 the bottom of the loop is touching the upright; there aren't any in the Colin Cooke collection which have this feature. 

[Chingford]

Footnote on Bramahs page 21 mentions Garside and Numismatic circular Vol XXXIII Cpl 314,

[Rob]

The first 6 is clear and unambiguous and consistently so across the date range, but the second is a thin winding line. I've seen this before, but never something that is unambiguously another 6. Anything with '6' as a last digit is invariably on a compromised coin. The Maundy 5s are considerably thinner than the farthing 5s despite being of similar height