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[Michael-Roo]

1 hour ago, Coinery said:

Definitely not the genuine article, but will definitely be the coin in that little group that will catch the highest bidder out, as there’s nothing else in there they could possibly be wanting!

Same seller:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287323936829?itmmeta=01KRX7WT4HCDJK4FW405YX1FA8&hash=item42e5d7583d:g:Zh8AAeSwC1ZqAMTQ

[Peckris 2]

4 hours ago, Michael-Roo said:

Same seller:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287323936829?itmmeta=01KRX7WT4HCDJK4FW405YX1FA8&hash=item42e5d7583d:g:Zh8AAeSwC1ZqAMTQ

That's supposed to be silver?? 

[Michael-Roo]

48 minutes ago, Peckris 2 said:

That's supposed to be silver?? 

Possibly silver, I don't know. A genuine Anne farthing? Not likely. 😁

Edited 16 hours ago by Michael-Roo

[Peckris 2]

6 hours ago, Michael-Roo said:

Possibly silver, I don't know. A genuine Anne farthing? Not likely. 😁

I'm not an expert on the Anne pattern farthings!

[wlewisiii]

There was a copper farthing in 1714 with Anne on it. According to https://en.numista.com/13073

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Only struck in the year of Queen Anne's death (1714), they did not circulate widely, to the extent that rumours started saying that they were of great rarity. Indeed Peck states that they were never officially issued and Spink lists them as Patterns. The following is an excerpt from the Department of Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame Libraries:

"In the last year of her reign the London mintmaster, Isaac Newton, oversaw the production of a few farthings, most of which were proofs, but a few may have been made for circulation. These coins were slightly smaller than William's farthings but of a much higher level of craftsmanship. Newton produced a more uniform product with less of a weight range between examples and sharper reliefs on the images."

There are no silver pattern coins listed. So, yes, I would say that that was an easily discovered fake and that the seller should be considered unsafe.