Defacing a coin of the realm was a more subtle crime - one with no evident victims - but it was an even more effective attack on the authority of a state which excluded women from political life.
The exhibition reveals how currency has been defaced for centuries as a means ... The Fitzwilliam Museum The most significant defacement of coins recorded in Europe was in France targeting ...
A collection of 1,000-year-old Viking Age coins has just been discovered on the Isle of Man—a small British crown dependency located in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.