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1775 Counterfeit British Farthing, Double Struck, Simian Family. 19.7 grains.

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1775 Counterfeit British Farthing, Double Struck, Simian Family. 19.7 grains.
1775 Counterfeit British Farthing, Double Struck, Simian Family. 19.7 grains.Fine or so, with the usual flattening of details from the second strike, the coin bent and straightened at some point. The first strike was normally centered, the second towards 7:00, with the obverse showing a full set of ordinals and the denticles above in that tab, while the reverse tab has no discernible detail. Medium brown, the planchet with few marks other than the bends mentioned – at under 20 grains, or less than half the weight of the three previous counterfeit farthings, you could literally bend this just using thumb and forefinger! The Simians tend to weigh significantly less than most other counterfeits families, and this weight – very close to one-fifth what a regal farthing would weigh – yielding quite the profit margin the first time it was circulated.From the 1999 C4 Convention Auction, where this was Lot 521.