Black, Asian and other ethnic minority figures are set to feature on British notes and coins for the first time in history. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering proposals to have influential BAME people - such as military figures and nurses - featured on a future set of Royal Mint coins.
Those under consideration include the first Indian and Gurkha soldiers who received the Victoria Cross, British-Jamaican Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole, and Noor Inayat Khan, a World War II agent and one of only four women to have received the George Cross, Treasury minister John Glen told The Sunday Telegraph.
Plans have been submitted to the Royal Mint to draft proposals and designs for the potential coins. Chancellor Sunak has previously expressed
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