{"id":13096,"date":"2011-09-05T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=13096"},"modified":"2019-12-03T22:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:39:39","slug":"england-contemplating-polymer-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=13096","title":{"rendered":"England contemplating polymer notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='has-larger-font-size'>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/news\/british-bank-notes-set-for-plastic-surgery-2348805.html\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article in The Independent dated 4 September 2011<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank of England<\/a> is considering a polymer 5-pound (US$8.05) note and a 50-pound (US$80) note with a transparent window (most likely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delarue.com\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">De La Rue<\/a>\u2019s Optiks) to improve durability and protect against counterfeiting.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the BoE said: &#8220;This is at the evaluation stage. A decision won&#8217;t be made for the next year or two and production a little while after that, but a plastic \u00a35 note is a possibility even though it won&#8217;t provide as much security as other options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy Thomas Krause and Richard Miranda.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in The Independent dated 4 September 2011, the Bank of England is considering a polymer 5-pound (US$8.05) note and a 50-pound (US$80) note with a transparent window (most likely De La Rue\u2019s Optiks) to improve durability and protect against counterfeiting. A source close to the BoE<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=13096\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[145],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-13096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-europe","tag-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13097,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions\/13097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}