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	British & Foreign Banknotes
		A banknote is a form of promissory note, which developed from the bill of exchange - an open letter requesting one person to pay a stated sum of money to another on behalf of the person who wrote the letter.
		Banknotes were payable on demand, it being an act of bankruptcy not to immediately meet such a demand.
		Banknotes would often be exhibited at bankruptcy hearings as evidence of debt.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /trev.rh/Notes/notes.htm (1608 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: British banknotes
		British banknotes are the banknotes of the United Kingdom and British Islands, denominated in pounds sterling (GBP).
		In 1920, the silver content of all British coins was reduced from 92.5% to 50%, with a portion of the remainder consisting of manganese, which caused the coins to tarnish to a very dark color after they had been in circulation for a significant period.
		British government sources suggest that prices have risen over 61 fold since 1914, so a mediaeval sterling silver penny might be worth around £4.50 today, and a farthing (a quarter penny) would have the value of slightly more than today's pound.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-banknotes (6005 words)

	british coinage - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The British currency was decimalised on February 15, 1971.
		In 1920, the silver content of all British coins was reduced from 92.5% to 50%, with a portion of the remainder consisting of manganese, which caused the coins to tarnish to a very dark color after they had been in circulation for a significant period.
		British government sources suggest that prices have risen over 61 fold since 1914, so a mediaeval sterling silver penny might be worth around £4.50 today, and a farthing (a quarter penny) would have the value of slightly more than today's pound.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/british-coinage (1544 words)

	British banknotes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1921 the Bank of England gained a legal monopoly on the issue of Sterling banknotes in England and Wales, a process that started in 1844 when the ability of other banks to issues notes was restricted.
		The bank issued its first banknotes in 1694, although until 1745 they were written for irregular amounts, rather than pre-defined multiples of a pound.
		The first coloured banknotes were issued in 1928, and were also the first notes to be printed on both sides.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=British_banknotes (1132 words)

	Palestine Coins and Banknotes - Main Page
		The Palestine Currency Board was appointed in 1926 by the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was in charge of the introduction and control of currency in Palestine under the British Mandate.
		These banknotes were issued from November 1, 1927 on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration until the termination of the mandate in 1948, when over 59 million Palestine pounds were in circulation.
		From their original issue of September 1, 1927, banknotes of the Palestine Currency Board were legal tender in Israel until September 15, 1948, even though the State of Israel was formed four months earlier on May 14.
	www.drberlin.com /palestine (878 words)

	Science Fair Projects - British banknotes
		No banknotes are legal tender in Scotland (not even Scottish notes, which are 'promissory notes' - essentially cheques made out from the bank to 'the bearer', as the wording on each note says).
		In contrast the coins from British dependancies like Jersey and the Isle of Man, while usually similar and sometimes found in UK change, are neither legal tender nor acceptable to UK traders and banks.
		Prior to the issue of its Series C banknotes in 1960, Bank of England banknotes did not depict the monarch.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/British_banknotes (1619 words)

	British banknotes
		'''British banknotes''' are the banknotes of the United Kingdom and British Islands, denominated in pound sterlingpounds sterling (GBP).
		Previous banknotes have depicted Sir Isaac Newton, the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonDuke of Wellington, Florence Nightingale, William Shakespeare, Sir Christopher Wren, George Stephenson, Charles Dickens and Michael Faraday The Bank of England Series D one pound note was discontinued in 1984, being replaced by a British coin One Poundpound coin.
		Banknotes issued by Scottish and Northern Irish banks have to be backed by Bank of England notes (other than a small amount representing the currency in circulation in 1845), and special million pound notes are used for this purpose.
	www.territoriopc.com /eng/british_banknotes.php (1702 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, Alabama (AL)
		Sterling banknotes are the banknotes of the United Kingdom and British Islands, denominated in pounds sterling (GBP).
		Scottish banknotes are unusual in that they are technically not legal tender anywhere in the UK - not even in Scotland - they are in fact promissory notes.
		Some British overseas territories have their own currencies, and some of these issue banknotes bearing the monarch; for example the Falkland pound, the Gibraltar pound, and the Saint Helena pound.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=British_banknotes (2268 words)

	Legal tender - FX Reserves (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As at 2005 banknotes were legal tender for all payments, $1 and $2 coins were legal tender for payments up to $100, and 5c, 10c, 20c, and 50c silver coins were legal tender for payments up to $5.
		Banknotes remained unchanged (except for the replacement of the 10 shilling note by the 50 pence coin).
		In the case of the euro, coins and banknotes of former national currencies were considered as legal tender from January 1, 1999, until February 28, 2002 (in some cases), even if their corresponding currencies had ceased to exist.
	www.fxreserves.com /article/legal_tender.htm (3178 words)

	Chapter Excerpt: Krueger's Men by Lawrence Malkin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British schoolboys, twisting the familiar mnemonic of volume and weight, chanted the almost mythological rhyme, "The pound's a pound, the world around." And for the wicked, the pound's stability was a magnet.
		Next he bullied the British and French into selling out Czechoslovakia to him in 1938 for the false promise of peace, and in the same year sent his elite troops into Vienna for millions of Austrians to cheer their own conquest as a liberation.
		For the Nazis, it was totally in character to try to undermine British finance even as they had hoped to persuade London to join in some kind of political partnership (in practice, it would have been that of a British horse with a German rider).
	www.twbookmark.com /books/49/0316057002/chapter_excerpt23778.html (4092 words)

	British banknotes at AllExperts
		British banknotes are the banknotes of the United Kingdom and British Islands, denominated in pounds sterling (GBP).
		Banknotes issued by Scottish and Northern Irish banks have to be backed by Bank of England notes (other than a small amount representing the currency in circulation in 1845), and special million pound notes are used for this purpose.
		Scottish banknotes are unusual in that they are not legal tender anywhere in the UK - not even in Scotland - they are in fact promissory notes.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/br/british_banknotes.htm (1949 words)

	BULLETIN 11th July 97 - Magnetic scanner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		American banknotes are printed with magnetic inks - the video recording head makes a magnetic image of the note just as it would normally make a magnetic recording of a TV programme.
		British banknotes don't use magnetic inks, but our cheques do, and the new device could make a forger's job impossible.
		As with the forgery of banknotes, illegal copying of audio and video tapes is a skilled profession, and forgers are currently finding ways around many of the measures used to mark originals.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /press_office/bulletin/11jul97/item5.html (299 words)

	British banknotes . England . Royal Bank of Scotland . Clydesdale Bank . 1984 . British coin One Pound . Robert Burns
		The principle difference between the denominations is their colour and size.
		banknotes of the United Kingdom and British Islands, denominated in pound sterling pounds sterling GBP.
		English language, today spoken by hundreds of millions of people around the world, originated as the language of England, where it remains the principal tongue today although not officially enshrined as such.
	www.uk.kunsimuna.net /British_banknotes_UK_428244_mu (446 words)

	Articles - Personal Computing - Microsoft UK
		The 'pound sterling' originated during the 8th century when the basic monetary unit, called a sterling, was made equivalent to 1/240th of a 'pound' (1 lb/0.45 kg) of silver, and 240 sterlings (later pennies) became known as a pound of sterling.
		At this time, banknotes were originally handwritten on the bank's headed paper and signed by one of the cashiers - a printed signature of the chief cashier has been used since 1855.
		British banknotes today are printed at Debden, Essex, where about a billion are produced annually.
	www.microsoft.com /uk/homepc/articles/budget.asp (889 words)

	GBP - Information at Halfvalue.com
		In England and Wales, banknotes issued by the Bank of England are legal tender, meaning that they should be accepted in payment of a debt; they do not have to be accepted, but the debtor has a good defence in law against being sued for non-payment of that debt.
		British shopkeepers can choose to reject any payment, even if it would be legal tender in that jurisdiction, because no debt exists when the offer of payment is made at the same time as the offer of goods or services.
		The British Overseas Territories of Gibraltar, the island of Saint Helena, and the Falkland Islands also issue their own currencies, which are fixed to the value of sterling.
	www.halfvalue.com /wiki.jsp?topic=GBP (4221 words)

	WW II Allied Propaganda Banknotes
		The banknotes were needed by the guerrillas in their fight against the occupying Japanese forces.
		The OSS kept it a closely guarded secret and it is often difficult to tell what banknotes were being copied because the term used was almost always “merchandise,” and the nations and sometimes the agents were either unnamed or given a code name or number.
		The British were attacking and attempting to undermine this military currency because they knew that by regulation these notes were issued strictly to the armed forces.
	www.psywarrior.com /WWIIAlliedBanknotes.html (9290 words)

	British banknotes - Definition, explanation
		Issues of banknotes by Scottish and Northern Irish banks have to be backed by Bank of England notes, other than a small amount representing the currency in circulation in 1845, for which purpose special million pound notes are used.
		Opposite the British Museum, this is an established London dealer in British and world coins, ancients, banknotes, medallions and antiquities.
		Opposite the British Museum, this is an established London dealer in British and world coins, ancients, banknotes, medallions and...
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/br/british_banknotes_1.php (1890 words)

	British interests
		Decision to cancel an exclusive currency-printing contract for a British firm is being viewed as having contributed to the acrimony between the British High Commissioner and the Kibaki administration.
		The company admitted it was facing an "overcapacity problem" but the British government came to its rescue when it was selected as the preferred bidder for a seven-year contract to print British banknotes, a move that was to involve the acquisition of the Bank of England’s printing operations in Debden, Essex.
		Four years ago, the British Parliament was told that "the number employed at Vosper Thornycroft has reduced from 5,000 to only 1,200, with half that number now threatened with redundancy".
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/print/news.php?articleid=12502 (941 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For a long time a pound's worth of silver coins were a troy pound in mass.
		Today, the term may refer to a number of current (primarily British and related) currencies, and a variety of now-obsolete currencies.
		British banknotes – information on the banknotes issued and used in Britain
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Pound_(currency) (525 words)

	eBay.ie - Banknotes, Coins, ireland, Novelty Replica Banknotes items at low prices
		Russia / Banknote 1898 / 1 ruble Pick 15 / E F.
		IRELAND - 1987 £5 SCOTUS BANKNOTE - AUNC
		IRELAND - 1990 £5 SCOTUS BANKNOTE - AUNC
	coins.listings.ebay.ie /Banknotes_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ58507QQsocmdZListingItemList (416 words)

	NGI - Next Generation Internet ::: WEB-KATALOG
		BankNotes and Papermoney - - A collection of some of the world banknotes and papermoney, including The Netherlands, Italy, Zambia, Yemen, USA and German NotGel.
		Banknotes of Mali, Guinea and the French Antilles - - Images of Mali, Guinea, and the French Antilles.
		Banknote's of the British Isle's - - Banknote images an information for notes of England, Scotland, Isle of Man, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Jersey, and Guernsey.
	www.ngi-net.de /browse/Recreation/Collecting/Paper_Money (2501 words)

	Operation Bernhard - German counterfeit of British Pounds money during World War 2 - German historical Banknotes
		Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during the Second World War to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England banknotes.
		Beginning in 1942, the work of engraving the complex printing plates, developing the appropriate rag-based paper with the correct watermarks, and breaking the code to generate valid serial numbers was extremely difficult.
		Although the initial plan was to destabilise the British economy by dropping the notes from aircraft, on the assumption that while some honest people would hand them in most people would keep the notes, in practice this plan was not put into effect.
	www.germannotes.com /faq_operation_bernhard.shtml (592 words)

	Euro Banknotes
		Although we are primarily coin dealers, not banknote dealers, we have been asked so frequently for Euro notes, that we have decided to give in to popular demand, and offer Euro bank notes for sale.
		The reverse side of each banknote features a bridge from a particular age, a metaphor for communication among the people of Europe and between Europe and the rest of the world.
		For banknotes, all countries use identical designs on both sides of each denomination of note, so that there is only one set of Euro note designs.
	www.eurocoins.co.uk /banknotes.html (344 words)

	Bank of England\|Banknotes
		The Bank of England has been issuing banknotes for over 300 years.
		During that time, both the notes themselves and their role in society have undergone continual change.
		How to check that your banknotes are genuine using the security features.
	www.bankofengland.co.uk /banknotes (122 words)

	British banknotes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Scotland and Northern Ireland no banknotes â“ not even ones issued in those regions â“ are legal tender, although Bank of England one pound notes were when they existed: Bank of England notes of under five pounds value are legal tender.
		Scottish banknotes are unusual in that they are not legal tender anywhere in the UK - not even in Scotland - they are in fact promissory notes.
		Indeed, no banknotes (even Bank of England notes) are now legal tender in Scotland - although like debit cards and credit cards, they are still used as money.
	www.pillscatalog.net /British_banknotes.html (2125 words)

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