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20 Pounds - Agatha Christie
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 2018-2024 |
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| Size | 175 × 92 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Agatha Christie at right, with a central vignette of a Nile river steamer and an outline silhouette of a rider on a camel. An artistic underprint echoes the distinctive outline of Hercule Poirot's hat and moustache. The design references Christie's 1937 novel Death on the Nile, with the denomination and the legend PRIVATE ESSAY NOTE | NOT LEGAL TENDER incorporated into the composition. |
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| Reverse lettering | £20 Kingdom of Great Britain David SUCHET as Hercule POIROT Murder on the Orient Express (1934) TWENTY POUNDS £20 © FRANCK MEDINA 2018 |
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The Christie £20 was announced by the Bank of England in 2017 but never actually entered circulation — it was superseded before issue by the polymer £20 featuring J.M.W. Turner, which launched in February 2020. The paper series it was nominally part of had already been flagged for withdrawal, and the Christie design was quietly shelved. What exists are trial or promotional printings, not circulating banknotes in any standard sense.
Franck Medina is a French banknote designer whose work appears across multiple issuing authorities, though his involvement here never progressed to a released series.