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HOLDING OUT FOR HEROES

or more than a thousand years, English coins have carried the head of the ruling monarch. This year, with the coronation of King Charles III, a new series of coins and bank notes will continue that tradition. However, there are calls, world-wide, for currency to celebrate a wider spectrum of national

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