The Bank of England (BoE) has launched a public consultation on new themes for the next generation of British banknotes, ...

A new 50 pound ($70) banknote featuring the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing enters circulation in Britain on Wednesday, three months after the Bank of England first unveiled the ...

The people you see on British banknotes today all made history and shaped society in one way or another. They have at least one thing in common: they're all white. Those faces belong to former ...

In 1983, the Isle of Man issued a plastic £1 note, using British technology. However, the note was withdrawn five years later amid problems with the ink, which rubbed off on users' hands.

The changing face of U.S. currency 01:30. Jane Austen, one of Britain's most enduring authors, is now on the country's 10-pound note. Apart from the Queen, whose portrait is on all U.K. currency ...

Alan Turing to be face of new British banknote ... The RBA confirmed there had been “around 400 million” 50 pound banknotes printed with the error, with 46 million already in circulation. With AP.

Queen Elizabeth II currently appears on all four denominations of the Bank of England’s banknotes. Skip to content. WATE 6 On Your Side. Knoxville 65 ...

In the 1960s, the Labour government under Harold Wilson so resisted devaluing the pound — then set at a fixed rate of $2.80, high enough to be holding back the British economy — that he ...

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney made public something on his to-do list on Wednesday - ensuring women's contribution to British history is adequately represented on the country's banknotes.

A new 50 pound ($70) banknote featuring the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing enters circulation in Britain on Wednesday, three months after the Bank of England first unveiled the ...

Fifty-pound notes account for 357 million of the over 4.5 billion Bank of England banknotes in circulation. Lower-denomination notes are more popular for day-to-day transactions. ($1 = 0.7179 pounds) ...