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Fifty pounds (United Kingdom) Value: £50 sterling Width: 146 mm: Height: 77 mm: Security features: See-through windows the larger one with the King's/Queen's portrait a maroon border on both the front and back, with gold and green foil squares on the front and silver foil squares on the back, the image squares on the front changes between a '50' and a '£' symbol when the note is tilted ...
Main articles: Banknotes of the pound sterling and Bank of England note issues. Note: The description of banknotes given here relates to notes issued by the Bank of England. Three banks in Scotland and four banks in Northern Ireland also issue notes, in some or all of the denominations: £1, £5, £10, £20, £50, £100.
Currently circulating Bank of England notes. The pound sterling banknotes in current circulation consist of Series G Bank of England notes in denominations of £5, £10, £20 and £50. The obverse of these banknotes issued through 4 June 2024 feature the portrait of Elizabeth II originally introduced in 1990.
Current banknotes; Image Value Dimensions (millimetres) Material Main colour Reverse figure Issue date Notes Obverse Reverse £5: 125 × 65 Polymer Blue The reverse of the note features the 1941 portrait of Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh, the Elizabeth Tower, the maze at Blenheim Palace, the quote "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" from a 1940 speech by Churchill and ...
The polymer £50 note will join the Churchill £5, the Austen £10 and the Turner £20, meaning all Bank of England banknotes are now available in polymer. New £50 note featuring Alan Turing ...
The pound ( sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, [ 4] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [ 5] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [ 4] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [ 6]
Design date. 2021. The Bank of Scotland £50 note is a sterling banknote. It is the second largest of five banknote denominations issued by the Bank of Scotland. The current polymer note, first issued in 2021 bears the image of Walter Scott on the obverse and a vignette of the Falkirk Wheel and The Kelpies on the reverse.
The traditional bullion coin issued by Britain is the gold sovereign, formerly a circulating coin worth 20 shillings (or one pound) and with 0.23542 troy ounces (7.322 g) of fine gold, but now with a nominal value of one pound.