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Reverses

Reverses of English Banknotes

Only the first EPM catalogue number is shown for each reverse.

Series C Portrait 1960 to 1979 & D Pictorial 1970 to 1994

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