2003 50 Pence Coin - Suffragette

This 2003 coin celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union. The coin depicst a figure of a suffragette chained to railings and holding a banner showing the letters "WSPU" (Women's Social and Political Union), to the right a ballot paper marked with a cross and the words "GIVE WOMEN THE VOTE".

The reverse was designed by Mary Milner Dickens.

Obverse is the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley.