Reverses of English Banknotes
Series C Portrait 1960 to 1979 & D Pictorial 1970 to 1994
Only the first EPM catalogue number is shown for each reverse.
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Austin's £2 unissued design, late 1950s
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Eccleston's ten shilling banknote, Sir Walter Raleigh 1552 - 1628 (later changed to 50p).
Approved in 1964 but was never issued. A fifty pence coin was introduced.
Series C Portrait 1960 to 1979
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B286 10 shillings Brittannia holding an olive branch
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B281 £1 O'Brien Portrait Series
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B283 O'Brien Research note R reverse
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B292 G note printed on Goebbel press G reverse
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B297 £5 Hollom Brittannia modelled by engraver's daughter
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B299 £10 Hollom idealised depiction of a Lion holding a double key
D Pictorial 1970 to 1994
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B337 Sir Isaac Newton holding a copy of Principia
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B341 Sir Isaac Newton 1642 - 1727 W added to reverse
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B332 Duke of Wellington 1769 - 1852 battle scenes
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B334 Duke of Wellington L added reverse (0.5mm thread)
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B330 Florence Nightingale 1820 - 1910 worked in a Crimea war hospital
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B 348 Florence Nightingale L added (0.5mm & windowed thread B349)
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B318 William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 Romeo and Juliet on the balcony in Verona
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B351 William Shakespeare 1564 -1616 enhanced colours (windowed thread)
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B352 Sir Christopher Wren 1632 - 1723 St Paul's Cathedral architect
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