1 Farthing - Victoria

Jamaica's farthing coinage of this period was a direct consequence of the island's post-emancipation economy struggling to handle small retail transactions. The Colonial Office authorized the issue largely to address the chronic shortage of low-denomination coins in the local market, where worn foreign copper and improvised tokens had been filling the gap for decades. The Royal Mint struck these pieces in copper-nickel rather than bronze — a relatively early adoption of that alloy for British colonial issues.