Suffragette-defaced penny
c. 1913 · 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 1913
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)