Suffragette Defaced Penny Research Paper

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The Suffragette Defaced Penny was a very clever idea. It was a coin that had the face of king Edward's face on it.Sufferages used this small penny because defacing the coin was a subtle crime which had no evident victims. The coin, “carried the image of a king but appropriated by women” They did this by stamping letters all over the kings head in crude capital letters. The 3 words said, “VOTES FOR WOMEN.” It was a criminal act to vandalize the king's face, but the sufferages could not be tracked. “It was an act of civil disobedience.” The overstamped coins with a slogan were a form of female protest against the laws of the state. This was a very popular, low budget, piece of propaganda. The suffragettes defacing the face of King Edward caused

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