Suffragette-defaced penny
1903 · Resource
An Edward VII penny stamped 'VOTES FOR WOMEN' across the king's head as an act of suffragette protest. A defaced coin smuggling political dissent into everyday circulation.
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Around 1903
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Victorian era ends (1901)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Sinking of the Titanic (1912)
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premieres (1913)
- Second Boer War (1899)
- Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)