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The Bank of England 10 shilling note (notation: 10/–), colloquially known as the 10 bob note, was a sterling banknote. Ten shillings in £sd (written 10s or 10/–) was half of one pound. The ten-shilling note was the smallest denomination note ever issued by the Bank of England. The note was issued by the Bank of England for the first time ...
Value Circulation Notes Five shilling note 5/- (£0.25) non-circulating Originally issued by the treasury in 1914-1928. Not replaced by Bank of England notes. Ten shilling note: 10/- (£0.50) non-circulating Originally issued by the treasury in 1914. Replaced by Bank of England notes from 1928.
Examples include the £1 note issued to mark the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Alexander Graham Bell in 1997, the £20 note for the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 2000, the £5 note honouring veteran golfer Jack Nicklaus in his last competitive Open Championship at St Andrews in 2005, and the £10 note issued in ...
The Series B note was replaced in turn on 21 February 1963 by the Series C £5 note which for the first time introduced the portrait of the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, to the £5 note (the Queen's portrait having first appeared on the Series C ten shilling and £1 notes issued in 1960). The Series C £5 note was withdrawn on 31 August 1973.
Until 1981, these had a face value of twenty-five pence (25p), equivalent to the five shilling crown used in pre-decimal Britain. However, in 1990 crowns were redenominated with a face value of five pounds (£5) [17] as the previous value was considered not sufficient for such a high-status coin. The size and weight of the coin remained exactly ...
The word bob was sometimes used for a monetary value of several shillings, e.g. "ten-bob note". Following decimalisation on 15 February 1971 the coin had a value of five new pence , and a new coin of the same value but labelled as "five new pence" or "five pence" was minted with the same size as the shilling until 1990, after which the shilling ...
Australian £A 10 note; Bermudian £10 note; Cypriot £C 10 note; Fijian £10 note; Irish pound. Series A IR£10 note; Series B IR£10 note; Series C IR£10 note; Israeli IL10 note; Libyan £L10 note; Maltese £M 10 note; New Brunswick £10 note; New Zealand £NZ 10 note; Nova Scotian £10 note; Palestinian £P10 note; South African £SA 10 ...
A 1933 UK shilling 1956 Elizabeth II UK shilling showing English and Scottish reverses. The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s ...