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10 Shillings - Elizabeth II Series D, Sir Walter Raleigh, Unissued
| Issuer | Bank of England |
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| Year | 1966-1970 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Obverse description | Deep brown on multicolour underprint. Central vignette of Queen Elizabeth II in the hat and robes of the Order of the Garter, rendered in intaglio against an intricate guilloche background. The promise to pay inscription and Bank of England legends are arranged across the face in letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 SHILLINGS TEN SHILLINGS Sir Walter Raleigh 1552 · 1618 |
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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.