1 Farthing - George II

Ireland's copper farthing coinage in the mid-eighteenth century was contracted out to private minters in Britain rather than struck at the Tower of London, a practice that generated persistent complaints about quality and weight from Dublin merchants. The 1760 issue was among the last struck under George II, who died in October of that year — making this a transitional piece produced in the final months of his reign before the coinage was reauthorized under George III.