Compared with the country, mobile payments in the UK are not so popular

Far away in a foreign country.，

Money is full to increase the sense of security, isn't it?

So how exactly does the pound identify，

What's on the pound?

What about celebrities we know or are unfamiliar with?

Today Shen Xiaohui will introduce you to the British banknote-the British pound.

01 Bank of England notes
In circulation version

Now the circulation of the pound note is divided into 50 pounds, 20 pounds, 10 pounds and 5 pounds, the front of the pound note is the Queen's head, the back is different, (basically every 10 to 20 years to replace once.



The new version of £ 50 was officially released on August 2, 2011.Printed on the back are engineer James Watt and entrepreneur Matthew Bolton.For the first time in the United Kingdom, two portraits were printed on the back of banknotes.James Watt was a famous British inventor who improved the steam engine,which triggered the first industrial revolution.Matthew Bolton was an 18th-century English entrepreneur who devoted all his energy and financial resources to Watt's steam engine dream.However, because the denomination is too large, the actual use is not much.

The £ 20 in circulation today was issued on 13 March 2007.It is printed on the back of the famous 18th century economist Adam Smith.As one of the main representatives of British classical political economy, his wealth of nations laid the theoretical foundation of modern capitalism.He was the first Scottish citizen to appear on British banknotes.

The new £ 20 polymer banknote was issued on February 20, 2020.The banknote featured artist JMW Turner.

The new £ 10 was issued on September 14, 2017, on the back of the 19th-century British writer Jane Austen, the Banknote also printed“pride and prejudice”in the sentence: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading", Jane Austen and the Banknote also has its truth, because all her novels can be said to revolve around the British middle class concerns about wealth.

The new version of the £ 5 was officially released on 13 September 2016.On the back is the famous Churchill,the man who often appears in history textbooks, he was one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century, led the British people to win the Second World War, the“Yalta Conference”Big Three, delivered the famous“Iron Curtain speech”, his "unwanted war" won the 1953 Nobel Prize in literature, and in the 2002 BBC survey, Churchill was named The Greatest Englishman.

Non-circulating version

(Note: do not receive a non-circulating version of the pound during the exchange process）

Upcoming releases

(New version of the £ 50 banknote concept map）

The new £ 50 note is expected to begin circulation by the end of 2021.This will be the first £ 50 note printed on the polymer.

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British counterfeit identification with the renminbi is roughly the same, the best way to identify counterfeit is a combination of Man-Machine, machine identification as an auxiliary.The method of identifying counterfeit money is a look,two touch,three listen,four Test.

A look.:

Carefully observe the appearance of the face color, pattern, pattern, watermark and so on.Most pattern printing is a printing program, and the pattern of Sterling banknotes is three printing procedures,so the pattern three-dimensional sense is very strong,and uniform ink, lines, patterns and text has its own unique rules; look at the Avatar watermark: when looking at the light is very clear, the renminbi is Chairman Mao head, and the pound is the head of the Queen of the United Kingdom; see the metal security line: the real pound face has a complete metal security line, its color, through special processing technology, so that the special metal security line, and the paper face,  right There is no such metal security line on the face of the fake pound ticket,even if there is, a closer touch will find traces of its forgery.

Two touch：

Touch the banknote with your finger to tell the truth.The real coin face on the name,Braille and other patterns bump sense is obvious.The front of the banknote with Braille printing,that is, the side of the Queen's head,some fonts such as Bank of England and the lower left of a small pile of numbers are raised, some new banknotes can feel with a finger, the old banknotes basically can not.The counterfeit currency is relatively smooth,uneven sense is not obvious.

Three listen：

By aligning the banknote makes a sound, according to the sound to determine the authenticity of the pound.The sound of real coins is crisp and loud, and the sound of counterfeit coins is low.

Four Tests：

Where conditions permit there are money detectors,there is a very common method in the UK is the Money Tester Pen (money detector pen).Banknote detection Pen is a lot of British commissary or supermarket the most commonly used and most effective way, easy to use and simple.If it is real money, the line drawn is yellow, if it is counterfeit money, the line drawn is black, at a glance.

This is the deep Xiaohui for everyone to sort out the knowledge about the pound, we will be able to use it as a reference when you encounter the pound later!

Recently, the pound fell to a 35-year low, overnight, the pound plunged 5% against the dollar, the pound against the renminbi from 1:9 last month close to 1:8, which is the pound since 1985“lowest price in history”.The new Crown outbreak not only affected the UK's own economy, but also led to the delay of Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU, increasing the uncertainty of trade between the UK and Europe.Small partners with GBP exchange demand can consider buying on dips in the near future.