Reverses
Reverses of English Banknotes
Series C Portrait 1960 to 1979 & D Pictorial 1970 to 1994
Only the first EPM catalogue number is shown for each reverse.
Austin's £2 unissued design, late 1950s
Eccleston's 10s banknote design, Sir Walter Raleigh 1552 - 1628 (later changed to 50p).
Approved in 1964 but was never issued. A fifty pence coin was introduced.
Series C Portrait 1960 to 1979
B286 10s Brittannia holding an olive branch
B281 £1 O'Brien Portrait Series
B283 O'Brien Research banknote R reverse
Enlarged
B292 G note printed on Goebbel press G reverse
Enlarged
B297 £5 Hollom Brittannia modelled by engraver's daughter
B299 £10 Hollom idealised depiction of a Lion holding a double key
Series D Pictorial 1970 to 1994
B337 Sir Isaac Newton holding a copy of Principia
B341 Sir Isaac Newton 1642 - 1727 W added to reverse
Enlarged
B332 Duke of Wellington 1769 - 1852 battle scenes
B334 Duke of Wellington L added reverse (0.5mm thread)
Enlarged
B330 Florence Nightingale 1820 - 1910 served in a Crimea war hospital
B 348 Florence Nightingale L added (0.5mm & windowed thread B349)
Enlarged
B318 William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 Romeo and Juliet on the balcony in Verona
B351 William Shakespeare 1564 -1616 enhanced colours (windowed thread)
B352 Sir Christopher Wren 1632 - 1723 St. Paul's Cathedral architect