My Oldest Farthing... BEATEN

Looking through my bag of near/unreadable dates, also known as the shrapnel bag, I found this coin. Got into the best lighting I could find to try and catch a glint of light bouncing off some numbers and there we had it!

1789 Farthing. United Kingdom. George III was the monarch. The Prime Minister was William Pitt the Younger.

Interesting facts about this year -
19th March 1789 - Catherine Murphy, a counterfeiter, becomes the last woman in Britain to suffer a death sentence by burning
12th May 1789 - William Wilberforce makes his first major speech in the House of Commons on the abolition of the slave trade

1789 Farthing United Kingdom