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The UK's Royal Mint makes history with a new coin featuring Britannia as a woman of color
CNN ^ | March 19, 2021 | Leah Dolan

Posted on 04/12/2021 6:14:05 AM PDT by C19fan

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Good lord...now they will tell me Boudica is woman of color.
1 posted on 04/12/2021 6:14:05 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Well isn’t that special.


2 posted on 04/12/2021 6:14:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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More attempts to marginalize the indigenous peoples of England.


3 posted on 04/12/2021 6:15:33 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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The hair pulling part is Britain allowed these people into the country. You gotta to hand to the Japanese who actually believe Japan is for Japanese.


4 posted on 04/12/2021 6:16:20 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: SunkenCiv

>>Britannia was the Latin name given to the UK by the Romans after their invasion in 43 CE. The weapon-clad warrior woman became a personification of the British Isles and has fronted the country’s currency since 1672.


5 posted on 04/12/2021 6:16:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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Enoch Powell tried to warn them.


6 posted on 04/12/2021 6:16:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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When they say “of color” they mean black. The blacks had nothing to do with 99% of British history, but why quibble I guess.


7 posted on 04/12/2021 6:16:49 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...)
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They put Meghan Markle on a coin? How nice of them.


8 posted on 04/12/2021 6:18:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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On the bright side I can look at the Non-PC version of Britannia armed with a trident on my Victorian era pennies.


9 posted on 04/12/2021 6:18:21 AM PDT by C19fan
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Yes, the UK needs to make sure the 3% blacks (including dark meds) of its population is represented properly (source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/270386/ethnicity-in-the-united-kingdom/)

Based on UK woke TV you would think it was 45%.


10 posted on 04/12/2021 6:18:39 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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Yeah but the lion still looks like a white guy.


11 posted on 04/12/2021 6:19:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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I had to look twice to make sure it was not Franklin Mint and it was not a “tribute” coin.

(PS: Those Limited Edition Star Trek plates lovingly stored in my attic are the next Bitcoin! My retirement is SET!)


12 posted on 04/12/2021 6:21:32 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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Um, it looks like she is either gold or silver like every other Britannia.

But then in coins, as in life, it’s always about the content of the character.


13 posted on 04/12/2021 6:22:04 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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"Britannia was the Latin name given to the UK by the Romans after their invasion in 43 CE BC." There, fixed. Shove it up your collective Obamaholes, CNN.
14 posted on 04/12/2021 6:22:38 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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“More attempts to marginalize the indigenous peoples of England.”

That’s exactly what is going on.

I wonder if there has ever been another society that commits suicide like Judeo-Christian society is doing?

Maybe the Greeks?


15 posted on 04/12/2021 6:23:15 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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The blacks had nothing to do with 99% of British history...

There are plenty of blackguards in British history.

Julius Caesar already uses the term Britannia in his Commentaries on the Gallic War, written in the 50s B.C.

16 posted on 04/12/2021 6:23:36 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Franklin Mint is about making money for the Franklin Mint.

It would never attempt to push this turkey.


17 posted on 04/12/2021 6:24:27 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: C19fan

I guess there’s hope for Duchess Meghan Markle to get her face on a note


18 posted on 04/12/2021 6:26:38 AM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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So nobody else has to click the link...

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19 posted on 04/12/2021 6:33:33 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ )
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To: freedumb2003

You should read “The Star-Spangled Crunch” by Richard Condon, in which commemorative plates become the basis for the U.S. economy. Very funny book.


20 posted on 04/12/2021 6:41:38 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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