Farthing

This was minted when The Queen was still a princess, WWII was still being waged and it had a value to purchase rations.

Now it is quite common has no value and stopped being minted more than half a century ago.

[Jacqueline]

Lovely wren, great micro.

[Liz Milne]

Great picture!

[Sarah Bremner]

That's a lovely piece of treasure.

[Granagringa]

Like how there is no background....I don't know how to get that kind of isolation.

[JackieR]

@granagringa photoscapex has a round crop button!!!
@sarah19 we found it in the till at work!!
@spanishliz many thanks
@jacqbb thank you

[4rky]

Haven't seen one of these in a long time!
Nice one for the macro challenge

[FBailey]

Good choice for the challenge, that round crop button sounds a bonus!

[Kitty Hawke]

Havn't seen one of those for many years.......but I do remember them in use as a coin....

[JackieR]

@cutekitty you can't possibly remembered them in use!
@fbailey it's A tad fiddlybut effective
@4rky thank you

[Walks @ 7]

Cool shot.

[Kitty Hawke]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond I can....I have even still got one in a scruffy little purse I have since I was a kid. I am 68 now and have a long memory !

[Lisa Poland]

Awesome!

[wendy frost]

Lovely to see your farthing nice capture