{"id":16716,"date":"2009-06-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=16716"},"modified":"2019-12-03T23:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:35:19","slug":"bank-of-england-to-issue-new-50-note-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=16716","title":{"rendered":"Bank of England to issue new \u00a350 note in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='has-larger-font-size'>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">On 29 May 2009, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/publications\/news\/2009\/043.htm\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank of England<\/a> announced that it would issue a new 50-pound note in early 2011. The new \u00a350 note (US$82) will feature portraits of 18th century entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and engineer James Watt. Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, said, \u201cJust as the Bank of England plays an essential role in the economy as the United Kingdom\u2019s central bank, so too did Boulton and Watt\u2019s steam engines and their many other innovations as essential factors in the nation\u2019s Industrial Revolution. So many of the advantages society now enjoys are due in large part to the vital role of engineering and the brilliance and foresight of people such as Boulton and Watt whose development and refinement of steam engines gave an incredible boost to the efficiency of industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unique and rare opportunity that the Bank has through its banknotes to acknowledge and promote awareness of our nation\u2019s heritage of artistic, social and scientific endeavour is an honour for us. The Bank\u2019s choice of Boulton and Watt, a reminder of the invaluable contribution from engineering and the entrepreneurial spirit to the advancement of society, I think, well reflects this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boulton and Watt \u00a350 banknote will be the second note in the Series F family which began with the introduction of the Adam Smith \u00a320 note on 13 March  2007. Therefore its overall appearance will be similar. But for the first time two portraits will appear together on the reverse of the note, those of Boulton and Watt, along with the image of a steam engine and the Soho (Birmingham) Manufactory. As with the Adam Smith \u00a320 banknote however, continuity is provided with the current portrait of Her Majesty The Queen, which was first used in 1990 and which will be retained on the front of the note. Further details of the design and the range of security features to be included on the new note will be revealed when the new note is launched.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 29 May 2009, the Bank of England announced that it would issue a new 50-pound note in early 2011. The new \u00a350 note (US$82) will feature portraits of 18th century entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and engineer James Watt. Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, said, \u201cJust as the Bank of<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=16716\">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-16716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-europe","tag-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716","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=16716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16717,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716\/revisions\/16717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}