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The 5 British pound note front design features the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II (Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other commonwealth realms). on a background with line pattern and replications number five in the lower right. at the center is an illustration of the Bank of England with Coat of Arms of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Also completed with a window seal of the Queen’s portrait, a holographic seal of the Royal Crown, a stylized image of Big Ben (Elizabeth’s Tower), and the Bank of England seal.
The reverse of the note shows the portrait of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965), served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for two terms: from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. The portrait has a background that illustrates a view of Westminster (seat of government of the United Kingdom) and the Elizabeth Tower, which contains Big Ben on the South Bank of London; on the structure is presented the Nobel Prize medal that Churchill won together with the wording of the award mention. The design is completed with a window seal of the Queen’s portrait, a stylized image of Big Ben (Elizabeth’s Tower), and a Bank of England seal. This note is part of the 2015 series, and also its color is blue-turquoise.
Text: Bank of England, I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF FIVE POUNDS, Five Pounds, BLENHEIM, LONDON FOR THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND, CHIEF CASHIER, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and also sweat, Sir Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965, £5.
The pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, England, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, South Georgia and also the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
The pound was a unit of account in Anglo-Saxon England, and its origins date back to the reign of King Offa of Mercia (757–796).
In 1694 founded the Bank of England. Printed the first banknote in denominations of £10 notes in 1759, followed by £5 in 1793 and also £1 and £2 in 1797.
In 1855, introduced a new series in denominations of £5, £10, £20, £50, £100, £200, £300, £500, and also £1000.
Already in more recent times, The Bank of England introduced a polymer banknote series in denominations of £5 in 2016, followed by £10 in 2017, £20 in 2020, and also £50 in 2021.
The Bank of England oversees the monetary policy of the pound sterling and regulates the amount of money in circulation.
The currency code for Pounds is GBP, and the currency symbol is £.
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