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includes articles on National Bank of Greece Notes from 1890, Vietnamese Banknotes Printed by GDR, The Currency Conversion and Notes for the Reversion of Okinawa to Japan, 1974, Belgium's Last Banknote and Spanish Colonial Issues in Cuba Part 2 Login to read your copy. |
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| Banknote of 2024 Nominations |
The first three nominations for the Banknote of 2024 are: Kazakhstan: 5,000-Tenge Note, Honduras: 500-Lempira Note, England: 5-Pound Note. |
Bank of England's 50 Pound Note
Nominated by Christopher Nield, IBNS Member 9638
| Note | B206 (PNL): 50 pounds (US$63) |
| Predominant Colour(s) | Red |
| Front | English text; Bank of England seal; Queen Elizabeth II; coronation crown; computer chip circuitry; Bank of England headquarters, London; coats of arms; Queen Elizabeth II |
| Back | English text; mathematical table and formulae from Turing’s seminal 1936 paper, “On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem;” ticker tape depicting Alan Turing’s birth date (23 June 1912) in binary code; technical drawings for the British Bombe; Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) Pilot Machine; Alan Turing; sunflower head as red foil patch |
| Watermark (shadow image) | None |
| Additional Security | Kurz’s Kinegram Colors holographic stripe |
| Printer | De La Rue |
| Size | 146 x 77 mm Polymer (Guardian and Safeguard) |
| Introduced | 23/06/2021 |
| Information provided courtesy of The Banknote Book | |