Macro Mondays - Trinket
A reflective moment …
The British Farthing was a British coin worth a quarter of the old penny of the £ s d (pound shilling and pence) denomination. It ceased to be struck after 1956 and was demonetised in 1961. The wren design was first struck in 1936 and stayed on the coin for the remaining 20 years.
Many coins having been demonetised have gone into jewellery design and the farthing here being enamelled has used a bit of artistic licence in colouring the wren with a red breast, maybe thinking it was a robin?
This trinket was one of many, many pieces of costume jewellery given to my mother throughout her life. After her passing her jewellery was passed onto my sisters and nieces. Somehow this piece was left behind and sits in its box as one of the many reminders to my Mum.
(I used a mirror to show the reverse, hence being back to front)
Macro Mondays - Trinket
A reflective moment …
The British Farthing was a British coin worth a quarter of the old penny of the £ s d (pound shilling and pence) denomination. It ceased to be struck after 1956 and was demonetised in 1961. The wren design was first struck in 1936 and stayed on the coin for the remaining 20 years.
Many coins having been demonetised have gone into jewellery design and the farthing here being enamelled has used a bit of artistic licence in colouring the wren with a red breast, maybe thinking it was a robin?
This trinket was one of many, many pieces of costume jewellery given to my mother throughout her life. After her passing her jewellery was passed onto my sisters and nieces. Somehow this piece was left behind and sits in its box as one of the many reminders to my Mum.
(I used a mirror to show the reverse, hence being back to front)