Quarter farthing

The quarter farthing was a British coin worth Template:Frac of a pound, Template:Frac of a shilling, or Template:Frac of a penny. The Royal Mint issued the coins in copper for exclusive use in British Ceylon in 1839, 1851, 1852, and 1853.<ref name="Peck415">Template:Harvnb</ref> The mint also produced bronze proofs in 1868.<ref name="Peck416">Template:Harvnb</ref>

The obverse of the coins used William Wyon's obverse die for the Maundy twopence, bearing a left-facing portrait of Queen Victoria and the legend Template:Small.<ref name="Peck415"/> Wyon designed the reverse to feature a royal crown above the words Template:Small and the date. Below the date, the coins featured a heraldic rose with three leaves on either side.<ref name="Peck415"/> The coins were made of copper, weighed 1.2 gramme, and had a diameter of 13.5 millimetres.<ref name="Peck415"/> The mint struck proof quarter farthings in bronze and copper-nickel in 1868, but did not issue any quarter farthings for circulation that year.<ref name="Peck416"/>

While quarter farthings were never legal tender in the United Kingdom,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> they are fractions of the British farthing, which was currency in Ceylon, and traditionally have been catalogued as British coinage.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

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