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Metallic Security Thread Banknote

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

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1940

Montagu Norman1940

London · Economy / Currency

Montagu Norman serves as Governor as the Bank of England introduces a special blue one-pound note using a metallic security thread against wartime counterfeiting.

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Montagu Norman

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