NEW BOOK: ENGLISH PAPER MONEY 10TH EDITION

ENGLISH PAPER MONEY 10th Edition Including Polymer - Essential guide for every collector of Bank of England banknotes 1694 to date - Up to date information on all grades and values - Treasury notes from 1914 to 1928 - White £5 to £1000 - Branch rarity. The indispensable award winning Price Guide for English Paper Money.

Within the book, Jennifer Adam, curator of the Bank of England Museum has written an article: The design and production of Bank of England notes, 1694 to 1928.

416 full colour pages with price guide and a new addition of research on all the white branch notes recorded in private hands.

EDITION: 10th
PRICE: £25.00 plus postage

 

I would like to thank Vincent Duggleby for, once again, trusting us with his original work. There have been some exciting finds since EPM 9th edition. Some establishments asked for Specimens of the then, new Bailey £20 B405. None had been ordered as specimens had ceased being supplied by De La Rue for the Bank. The last known to have been issued was B393s £5 Lowther. The Bank pulled some LL prefix £20's from issued stock and overprinted ‘SPECIMEN' in house. When first offered for sale they were believed to have been created fraudulently, but were eventually confirmed by the Bank to be genuine.

The issue of the £50 polymer was promoted heavily by the Bank with a series of twelve problem solving puzzles, put together by GCHQ for the public to seek the answers, perhaps, the most engaging aspect of a banknote ever issued by the Bank of England. Research into the new polymer £20 banknotes featuring Turner ascertained that the Bank of England had allowed for two types of polymer substrate to be used. Interestingly, at the point of going to press no BE prefix has been issued on any modern banknote. Polymer banknote collecting has become a collecting area in its own right, ensuring that our Bank of England banknotes are collected Internationally.

Whilst in the process of preparing this edition, we were about to de-list the £500 Peppiatt London as being ‘none in private hands', however, a regional auction house put one up for sale, which is understood to have come from the Hoare Banking family.

 

Due to the diligent ongoing research by Peter we can now state estimates of recorded issued Branch white banknotes in private hands detailing scarcity. Many major English collections have been auctioned since the last edition: Brian Ascroft, Laurie Butters, Drs. J and E Dauer, Lou Manzi, Mark Ray and Tony Simms, thus providing a further rich source for pricing.

 

With the sad passing of Queen Elizabeth II, we can look forward to the issuance of King Charles III polymer banknotes. The Bank will continue with the current series and we expect the banknotes to be issued early 2024. It is likely that all denominations will come out either all at once, or close to each other and I suspect that the first prefix for each denomination will be AA01. Logically, the Bank will put the low serials up for auction, raising funds for their chosen charities. Although rumours abound about the demise of cash, we hope, as collectors that banknotes continue to out survive us.

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