<story><title>Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note</title><url>https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Athas</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s good that Turing gets put on a banknote - and about time.&lt;p&gt;However, the concept art in that article is really ugly.  I&amp;#x27;m not that familiar with British banknotes - are they usually that messy looking?  Every piece of text is in a different font, and it seems pretty vulgar to have a quote on the note at all.  There&amp;#x27;s even drop shadows!  It honestly looks like something I&amp;#x27;d put together in Corel Draw in the mid-2000s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamnotacrook</author><text>I just got back from a trip to the States and I have to say that US money is very boring by comparison to UK money.  How on earth do blind&amp;#x2F;old people deal with the fact that all denominations are practically the same size, design, colour etc?</text></comment>
<story><title>Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note</title><url>https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019/july/50-pound-banknote-character-announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Athas</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s good that Turing gets put on a banknote - and about time.&lt;p&gt;However, the concept art in that article is really ugly.  I&amp;#x27;m not that familiar with British banknotes - are they usually that messy looking?  Every piece of text is in a different font, and it seems pretty vulgar to have a quote on the note at all.  There&amp;#x27;s even drop shadows!  It honestly looks like something I&amp;#x27;d put together in Corel Draw in the mid-2000s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willyt</author><text>I agree, of all the different kinds of UK notes the latest Royal Bank of Scotland notes are my favourite designs [0] [1]. Make sure to look at both sides. One of the confusing things about bank notes in the UK is that there are 5 totally different designs for each denomination: Bank of England, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and Ulster Bank. This can lead to some confusion when you try to pay someone with a rarer note as they may not have seen them before. Scottish notes are usually OK. Good luck with Ulster Bank notes though.
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