Which English king famously debased the coinage so severely in the 1540s that he earned the nickname 'Old Coppernose'?

Sixteenth-century England saw one of the most notorious currency debasements in European history. The silver content of coins was slashed to fund royal ambitions, and the results were visible on the face of the coins themselves.

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