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Putting King Charles III on British currency bucks a global trend to honor diverse national heroes on coins and bills

  • Written by Harcourt Fuller, Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University
Putting King Charles III on British currency bucks a global trend to honor diverse national heroes on coins and billsAbout 4.5 billion bank notes and more than 27 billion coins featuring the queen's image are now circulating in the U.K.Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images

For more than 60 years, the image of Queen Elizabeth II graced the currencies of the United Kingdom as well as some of the Commonwealth nations. During her historic reign she...

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