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Secure By Design - The Boulton and Watt £50 Note

This event has now finished Until Fri Mar 23 Bank of England Museum, Threadneedle St (entrance in Bartholomew Lane), London, EC2R 8AH Full details & map

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To mark the introduction of the new £50 note, this exhibition examines the design of the note and its security features, along with the historical figures depicted on the note - Matthew Boulton and James Watt - and their role in the Industrial Revolution. In addition, the show traces the evolution of the £50 note from its introduction in 1725, including early forgeries (forgers would attempt to increase the value of a note by altering the amount in words and figures). On show are examples of nineteenth-century £5 notes which were altered and slipped into circulation by forgers, who risked a death sentence for their crime.

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Bank of England Museum, Threadneedle St (entrance in Bartholomew Lane), London EC2R 8AH

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The museum tells the story of the Bank of England, from its origins in 1694, as a national bank to fund the war with France, to the present. As...

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