(1670s) Saint Patrick New Jersey Farthing
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The St. Patrick farthing is a copper piece with a spot of brass on the crown on the obverse. The St. Patrick pieces are copper tokens whose maker is unknown; Michael Hodder dated them to about 1672-1675, and the arms of Dublin on the larger piece point to an Irish origin. The obverse shows a crowned King David playing a harp, with a spot of brass on the crown, and the legend FLOREAT REX; the smaller piece, called a farthing, shows St. Patrick driving out serpents with QVIESCAT PLEBS. Mark Newby brought the larger pieces to West New Jersey in 1681, and the West Jersey Assembly made them current as halfpence in May 1682. Mossman illustrates a farthing of 96.1 grains and notes that only the larger halfpence are named in the New Jersey records or found in the ground there. Cataloged as PCGS #42.
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