Third farthing

Third farthing

United Kingdom
Value	£0.0003472 0.083d
Mass	(1827–1844) 1.5–1.6 g (1866–1913) 0.9–1 g
Diameter	16 mm
Composition	(1827–1844) copper (1866–1913) bronze
Years of minting	1827, 1835, 1844, 1866, 1868, 1876, 1878, 1881, 1884, 1885, 1902, 1913
Obverse
Design	Profile of the monarch (George V design shown)
Designer	Bertram Mackennal
Reverse
Design	Various (Crown-and-oak-wreath design shown)
Designer	Leonard Charles Wyon
Design date	1866

The third farthing was a British coin worth 1⁄2880 of a pound, 1⁄144 of a shilling, or 1⁄12 of a penny. It was minted in copper in 1827, 1835, and 1844, and in bronze in various years between 1866 and 1913. While exclusively authorised for use in the Crown Colony of Malta, third farthings are catalogued as British coinage because they are fractions of British currency, and Malta otherwise used standard coins of the pound sterling.^[1]