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Farthing Stamps (1/4d) From British Empire

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Posted 12/18/2019   07:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Glenn Estus to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Can anyone point me to a listing of British Empire Farthing stamps. These are 1/4d stamps.
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All I can think of is to search the Stanley Gibbons catalogs. I believe the farthing was discontinued around 1960. The lowest coin when I was there was the haypenny.
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There are a few listed on this site:

https://www.ebay.ie/sch/Stamps/260/...nkw=farthing

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22crows:

I have done searches on ebay and I'm going through the Scott Catalogs. Perhaps there is a group of collectors who collect the farthing stamps. Perhaps a FARTHING STUDY GROUP or something of that nature
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Here is a little and most likely incomplete list (farthing or 1/4d)
Numbers are from Michel catalogue,I have not Gibbons or Scott.

Barbados : 42-53-62-69-77-81
Bermuda : 25-34-51-60-69
Cayman Islands : 31-32-56-70-86-101-123-136-154-177-204-210-211
Dominica : 107
Fiji : 56-71
Grenada : 123-199
Malta : 15-24a-41-56-64-81-82-101-115-133-152-176-199-237
Montserrat : 55
Turks & Caicos : 56-57-78-88-118


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A handful of Heligoland stamps were denominated in farthings (and pfennigs), including 1 farthing.
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I checked my KGV collection and can add Cyprus and Leeward Islands to our list.
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There appear to be at least 9 from Barbados, and at least 3 from Leeward Islands. I could not see any from Cyprus.
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The Cyprus are denominated in piastres, but are the equivalent of a 1/4d
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I noticed the quarter piastre stamps, but I don't see why they should be included in a farthing count.

Adding: There were 9 piastres to the shilling (not 12), so the quarter piastre was not equivalent to the farthing.

http://www.coinsworld.eu/info/cyprus-banknotes/
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Same with Cayman Islands, there are numerous half cent stamps,
but I did not consider them Farthing counts.

I am presuming farthing values were for internal local documents etc.
Malta źd stamps were used for internal newspapers.
There are Farthing indicia on Newspaper wrappers. (7 in total)
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