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50 Pounds - Teller Practice Banknote
| Issuer | Bank of England |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Size | 156 x 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Chinese teller training reproduction of the Bank of England 50 Pounds issue, brownish-black, red and violet on multicolour underprint. Portrait vignette of Queen Elizabeth II at right, Britannia vignette at left. Overprinted with red Chinese characters identifying the note as a practice piece prohibited from circulation. |
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| Reverse description | Chinese teller training reproduction of the Bank of England 50 Pounds reverse, replicating the 1694–1994 tercentenary design. Vignette of the Bank gatekeeper at left, portrait of Sir John Houblon at right, and a view of his Threadneedle Street house at left. Overprinted with red Chinese characters identifying the note as a practice piece prohibited from circulation. |
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Bank of England teller training notes are genuine curiosities — produced to the same physical and paper specifications as circulating issues so that cashiers could practice handling, sorting, and authentication checks without pulling live notes from stock. The 1994 date aligns with the period when the Bank was actively updating staff procedures around the newly introduced machine-readable security thread and improved ultraviolet features on the Series E £50.
These were never legal tender and were not issued through normal channels. Surviving examples almost always show heavy handling wear from repeated classroom use.