Fury as Queen’s head defaced with NAZI SWASTIKA on British coins

One horrified woman spotted a swastika stamped over the Queen’s head on a 50p she was given in change.

The 1997 coin was adorned with the Nazi Party’s eagle symbol, known as a Reichsadler and used between 1935 and 1945.

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And others have recently found similar icons on 50p and £2 coins, leading them to believe that a Second World War-obsessive is stamping them at home and then going out and spending them. The Royal Mint said it was aware of the coins.

The Mint’s Currency Security Technical Expert, Scott Kuperus, said: “The Royal Mint strongly disapproves of the defacing of coins in this way, as such action could bring into question the integrity of the United Kingdom coinage.

“Doing so is often counterproductive as the defaced coins are quickly removed from circulation.”

Nicola Harrison, 37, posted a snap of her 50p coin on Facebook at the weekend to ask if anyone else had seen one.

She said that she was now too scared to spend it in case she gets arrested.

Miss Harrison was given it in change after she bought a drink with a £5 note at a petrol station in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

“I have never seen a coin with this on,” she said. “I don’t like what it represents at all.

“My first thought was how has someone managed to get away with this?”

And the coin isn’t the first to be spotted doing the rounds.

Another 50p discovered in July 2015 was stamped with a bird carrying a Swastika and on the other side the initials SS – representing the Nazi paramilitary Schutzstaffel group.

On a thread on the subject, posted on chat site Reddit, one coin enthusiast said: “They have a custom stamp made and they must have just struck it with a hammer because it flattened the other side whereas a press would have supported the back.

“Someone out there is pretty dedicated, and I’d like to know which die manufacturer would create a Nazi stamp.”

Another coin collector said he’d found the symbols on a £2 coin he received in Coventry the same year and wrote about it on a coin-collecting website.

He said: “I received a £2 coin in my change today and noticed the Queen’s face has been defaced.

“It has been stamped with an eagle stood upon the swastika and also has SS on the back.”

Similar coins have been found in Germany, where Nazi symbols are illegal.

Earlier this year, a €2 coin was discovered at a restaurant in the city of Neuss stamped with banned imperial eagles and a swastika.

Luke Hearn, of UK change collection website Change Checker, said the doctored coins were worthless because of their evil associations.

He said: “This is the first I’ve seen of this and hopefully  last.

“Being very honest, I can’t imagine these being worth anything as I can’t believe there’s anyone who’d want to buy them.”