Books on Farthings

[Kronos]

Does anyone know of any book(s) specific to farthings.

[Colin G.]

Does anyone know of any book(s) specific to farthings.

Other than books covering the copper and bronze coinage (Peck, Bramah, Freeman etc), there are no specific farthing books that I am aware of. It is a project I am looking into at the moment. The Colin Cooke catalogues are the only other literature that used to have features on varieties etc.

[scott]

there is none, perhaps a project for one of us. there is of course online referances but thats not 100% coverage

[InforaPenny]

Does anyone know of any book(s) specific to farthings.

Other than books covering the copper and bronze coinage (Peck, Bramah, Freeman etc), there are no specific farthing books that I am aware of. It is a project I am looking into at the moment. The Colin Cooke catalogues are the only other literature that used to have features on varieties etc.

The Colin Cooke collection sale catalogue of May 2006 itself provides a fairly detailed listing with many varieties (well illustrated in colour) from the earliest types through 1956. It also includes fractionals. Since this collection was probably the most complete ever assembled this constitutes good coverage of the series, although I noted a few items missed the sale such as the 1953 varieties, Colin's 1860 and 1864 copper farthings, etc. (I assume either held back from the sale or sold privately). You might check with the Colin Cooke website to see if the catalogue might still be available. Also, the website itself has a section on collections which documents this sale and the Oxford Collection sale.

[Coppers]

Multiple examples of the 1860 copper farthing are depicted on the site (all have been sold) as well as an example of an 1864 copper farthing which is not for sale.

Here is a link to the page...

Copper Farthings

[AardHawk]

There is a series of three articles covering farthing varieties for 1672 to 1956 in the Nov 1978 through Jan 1979 editions of Coin Monthly and a further varieties article by the same author David Shaw on Half farthings in the 11-24 Jan 1980 edition of Coin.

[Kronos]

Does anyone know of any book(s) specific to farthings.

Other than books covering the copper and bronze coinage (Peck, Bramah, Freeman etc), there are no specific farthing books that I am aware of. It is a project I am looking into at the moment. The Colin Cooke catalogues are the only other literature that used to have features on varieties etc.

Good luck with the project, Colin G.

Can the Colin Cooke catalogues still be purchased. I've looked on the Colin Cooke web site but it states 'At present, we have no catalogues available for purchase'.

[Peter]

They sometimes appear on Ebay.

In some of the latter lists Colin detailed some of the series brilliantly.

I also suggest the Coin Mags of yesteryear at least had good specialist write ups (if Mr Mussell reads or hears of this)

[Kronos]

Thanks everyone

[Geoff T]

Does anyone know of any book(s) specific to farthings.

Other than books covering the copper and bronze coinage (Peck, Bramah, Freeman etc), there are no specific farthing books that I am aware of. It is a project I am looking into at the moment. The Colin Cooke catalogues are the only other literature that used to have features on varieties etc.

The Colin Cooke collection sale catalogue of May 2006 itself provides a fairly detailed listing with many varieties (well illustrated in colour) from the earliest types through 1956. It also includes fractionals. Since this collection was probably the most complete ever assembled this constitutes good coverage of the series, although I noted a few items missed the sale such as the 1953 varieties, Colin's 1860 and 1864 copper farthings, etc. (I assume either held back from the sale or sold privately). You might check with the Colin Cooke website to see if the catalogue might still be available. Also, the website itself has a section on collections which documents this sale and the Oxford Collection sale.

I have a spare copy of the Cooke sale catalogue if you're interested in making me an offer. At one stage I ended up with four. It's still a very good record. I'm not sure what happened to the 1860 and '64 copper, but they were certainly not in the sale. I hope they're now in good hands.

G

[VickySilver]

The 1860 1/4d pieces listed in that catalogue were long since disposed of and the records on the site were kept so that readers might refer to essentially a library on all of the known pieces. The 1864 as best is known was held back, and is truly a tremendous piece (or at least appears to be and would love to hold it in hand).

Interesting to see what any of these pieces might bring in London auctions by a major house these days....

[Peckris]

Colin Cooke actually told me (this is going back some years - late 90s? early 00s?) that he was working on the farthings volume of a 3-volume series intended to replace Peck (or rather, update Peck - who is probably irreplaceable for the foreseeable future).

I never heard how far he had got with it, or whether this project has now been abandoned or postponed. As I never had any communication lines with Neil Paisley, I've kind of left this in limbo. Anyone else heard of this project, and if so, how far did it get?

[Rob]

Colin Cooke actually told me (this is going back some years - late 90s? early 00s?) that he was working on the farthings volume of a 3-volume series intended to replace Peck (or rather, update Peck - who is probably irreplaceable for the foreseeable future).

I never heard how far he had got with it, or whether this project has now been abandoned or postponed. As I never had any communication lines with Neil Paisley, I've kind of left this in limbo. Anyone else heard of this project, and if so, how far did it get?

I think he had got as far as Anne.