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This is also the last of the polymer series issued by the Bank of England since and needless to say, England is the latest country to fully adopted the polymer banknote series. The Bank of England, which was established on The main design of this note on the back features Alan Mathison Turing b.

Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, computer scientist and a code breaker too. If you have seen the movie called 'The Imitation Game' then you know who I am referring to.

This note was released on Alan Turing was born on The Enigma was a machine used by the Nazi to send secret messages securely and to make it even more difficult to crack, the German changed the cipher system daily. During the first few years of the war, Germany's U-boats Wolfpack - a convey of submarines were very successful in sinking Allied ships in the Atlantic ocean, the Indian ocean and the Pacific ocean thus affecting Britain's war supplies from the United States and other countries in fighting the Nazi.

The British government then formed a cryptography team that initially included Alan Turning to study and find a way to break the Enigma code. Alan Turning was not happy with some of the team members in the initial process, and he wrote to the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who then put Alan Turning in charge of the project.

In July , he successfully cracked the code which enables the British to listen to the messages sent by the Germans, thus giving the British an advantage in the open seas.

Alan Turning was awarded an OBE in for his wartime contribution. However, he was prosecuted in the early s for been a homosexual as it was illegal then. He was arrested and found guilty of gross indecency and instead of going to prison, he accepted chemical castration as his punishment. On the The official caused of death was suicide by cyanide poisoning. As not many people, even in the Great Britain would have heard of Alan turning until the movie 'The Imitation Game' was made in , I guess this note is to celebrate Alan Turning's achievement during the last world war and perhaps maybe an apology to him for prosecuting him for who he was.

In , the British parliament passed the law to decriminalise homosexual activities in the United Kingdom. Whilst Alan Turning was credited with the breaking of the German Enigma code, it should be noted that it was the Polish mathematicians who worked out how to read the Enigma messages first and then shared the information with the British government.

As per all current series of banknotes, on the front it features the portrait of Queen Elizabeth the Second. Her portrait was taken in when she was 59 years old. Signature - Sarah John appointed since Like those previously issued, the designs on both the front and the back are completely new.

For this polymer series, the designs on the front are all featuring a famous Scottish woman, and fish or animals on the back. Portrait of Flora Clift Stevenson, her name and dates of birth and death.

Background imagery of Ladies Bedstraw a botanical used in the dyeing process;. This note is printed with a date of 27th May and the signature on the note belongs to There are only few commercial banks around the world that still has the rights to issue their own banknotes that are legal tender.

These are known as 'high street bank' banknotes. These banks print banknotes on behalf of their own banks, which are legal tender and also have convertible value outsides its own territory as well.

Those banknotes issued by commercial banks in Northern Ireland and Scotland, can be used in anywhere in the UK. Those banknotes issued by the Bank of England are legal tender in the entire United Kingdom. Alison Rose. Ross McEwan announced his registration in April , and the note bearing his signature was first released on Following his announcement, he continued to stay on the role until a new successor was appointed.

The first issue was dated The delay was due to the error in printing the legal clause on the note and as such a new version has to be re printed. The initial legal clause printed on the first note reads as follows ;— "Ulster Bank Limited.

Apart from the new legal clause, the designs are the same with the same signature but with the new date of Dated , Hawthorne flower, a transparent outline of Lough Neagh and eels Street musical performers. Older Posts Home. Subscribe to: Posts Atom. Crocodile and crane. Jane Austen b. The definitive guide to polymer and hybrid bank notes. There are 1, entries varieties in the catalog with prices. This new edition is much enlarged and improved.

If you are interested in polymer and hybrid notes, this book is a must-have. Each note is illustrated in color, front and back. Below the illustrations are descriptions with some historical background about the vignettes on the notes, as well as detailed variety listings, each assigned their own unique Straus number for example: Australia S1R3a , along with cross-references to Pick and The Banknote Book catalog numbers. Pricing in euros is given for uncirculated notes, and lesser grades in the few cases where pristine notes aren't readily available.

The lines devoted to describing the variations are somewhat dense and deciphering the frequent abbreviations requires a bit of mental gymnastics, but as a fellow cataloger with an interest in collecting these notes, I appreciate the authors' attention to details, accuracy, and specificity. Also well received are all the footnotes below the variety listings which provide additional information about the notes, helping put them into context and enhancing their appeal.