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First Pictorial Banknote Issued

Great Britain · Economy / Currency. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1970

Harry Norman Eccleston9 September 1970

London · Economy / Currency

Harry Norman Eccleston designs the first Bank of England pictorial banknote, a twenty-pound note featuring William Shakespeare.

Names involved

Harry Norman Eccleston

Provenance

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