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10 Shillings - Elizabeth II Series D, Sir Walter Raleigh, Unissued
| Emittent | Bank of England |
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| Jahr | 1966-1970 |
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| Währung | Pound sterling (1158-1970) |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | BANK OF ENGLAND I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF TEN SHILLINGS LONDON FOR THE GOVr. AND COMPa. OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Brown and multicolour intaglio design centred on a three-quarter portrait vignette of Sir Walter Raleigh at right, dressed in Elizabethan court attire, with a full-rigged sailing ship at centre-left set against an elaborate starburst and guilloche underprint. The denomination TEN SHILLINGS is printed in large bold letterpress at lower centre-left, with the value numeral 10 repeated at upper left and upper right. |
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This note was designed during a protracted Bank of England review of its entire banknote series but never entered circulation. The Series D programme, which Harry Eccleston drove through from initial design to final approval, took years longer than planned — the ten shilling denomination was ultimately abandoned before issue when the note was demonetised in 1969 and the UK moved toward decimalization, rendering a new ten-shilling note economically pointless before the presses ever ran a public batch.
Surviving examples exist only as proofs or archival specimens. The cancellation of this denomination mid-development makes it one of the more historically clean dead ends in twentieth-century Bank of England printing history.