Word: phillitannia
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...father draped Phillida in a sheet, sat his daughter down with a stick in one hand to represent Britannia's spear. Her traditional olive branch was sketched in later. Some found the new design an agreeable change from the buxom figure on most other money. Other Britons thought Phillitannia "clumsily designed," "like Snow White" and "too much like a bathing beauty." Even Phillida-who might have been expected to welcome her newfound fame-objected to her father's drawing. "It's not," she pouted, "the real...
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