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[–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

‘This suffragette coin’, writes Neil MacGregor, ‘stands for all those who fought for the right to vote. It is a British penny with King Edward VII in elegant profile, but his image has been defaced in what was then a criminal act. Stamped all over the king’s head in crude capitals are the words VOTES FOR WOMEN.’1

It seems like it was already illegal to deface coins then.

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