Revealed: Royal Mint dropped National Trust coin after charity judged ‘troubled and political’

The Independent discovered through a Freedom of Information request that a plan to issue a commemorative coin marking the 125th anniversary of the National Trust was abandoned by the Royal Mint in 2018 after the conservation charity was judged to be a “troubled and political organisation”.

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