| There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around. |
| Young lads would then get a few farthings for catching dungflies and mayflies. |
| Back in 1698, the mill was used to forge copper blacks for the Royal Mint to strike farthings and halfpennies. |
| However, there were also crowns, farthings, guineas and sovereigns, all in varying amounts and none really compatible with any of the others. |
| There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions. |
| It has been a difficult struggle for a group which began life without two farthings to rub together. |
