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10 Pounds - Elizabeth II Charles Dickens, two '£10'
| Issuer | Bank of England |
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| Year | 1992-1993 |
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| Size | 142 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of England I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF TEN Pounds London For the Govr. and Compa. of the BANK of ENGLAND |
| Reverse description | Intaglio portrait of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) at right, his facsimile signature inscribed below, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint with a sunburst vignette in the upper centre. To the left, a detailed letterpress vignette illustrates the cricket match between Dingley Dell and All Muggleton from The Pickwick Papers, with players, spectators and a striped marquee tent visible; the denomination '£10' appears in the upper left corner alongside the 'BANK of ENGLAND TEN Pounds' heading. |
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Kentfield's tenure as Chief Cashier ran from 1991 to 1998, and his signature appears on this note in both issue years without variation — the dating distinction between 1992 and 1993 examples reflects cashier's serial letter ranges rather than any design or plate change. Roger Withington's engraving work on the Dickens vignette is among the finer pieces of intaglio portraiture produced at Debden in the early 1990s, though the series is more often remembered now for being superseded by the Series F £10 in 2000.
Dickens was the first non-monarch, non-allegorical figure to appear on a Bank of England £10, selected in 1992 after the Bank shifted toward literary and scientific figures for its higher denominations.