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The notes issued by the Bank of England in 1928 were the first coloured banknotes and also the first notes to be printed on both sides. The Second World War saw a reversal in the trend of warfare creating more notes when, in order to combat forgery , higher denomination notes (at the time as high as £1,000) were removed from circulation.
Extended the Bank Notes Act 1833 to make Bank of England notes under £5 in value legal tender; the act also applied to Scotland, making English 10/– and £1 legal tender for the first time. Bank of England withdrew low-denomination notes in 1969 and 1988, removing legal tender from Scotland. 2008 Banking Act 2009: UK
The Bank of England £1 note was a sterling banknote. After the ten shilling note was withdrawn in 1970, it became the smallest denomination note issued by the Bank of England . The one pound note was issued by the Bank of England for the first time in 1797 and continued to be printed until 1984.
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.
An early Bank of England note, with Britannia emblem, ... Moved to a new building in Grey Street (the bank's first purpose-built branch) in 1838, ...
When paper bank notes were first introduced in England, they resulted in a dramatic rise in counterfeiting. [citation needed] The attempts by the Bank of England and the Royal Mint to stamp out currency crime led to new policing strategies, including the increased use of entrapment. [59]
Bank Act of 1844. The Bank Charter Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 32), sometimes referred to as the Peel Banking Act of 1844, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed under the government of Robert Peel, which restricted the powers of British banks and gave exclusive note-issuing powers to the central Bank of England.
[n 1] Each note bore an alphanumeric serial designation and the signature of the Chief Cashier of the Bank of England. [5] Prior to the release of any notes by the Bank of England, all serial numbers were recorded in ledgers so the bank could verify its liabilities; these numbers were checked when the notes circulated back through the bank. [6 ...