Turing To Be On £50 Pound Note

[ChillDoubt]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48962557

Fantastic news, he was my first choice when the nominations were first announced.

[agchristie]

Ideal for things that cost a bombe! ;-)

All well and good but I don't think I've seen a £50 note in my life!

Does anyone carry them in their purses/wallets?

[bednobs]

I have also never seen a 50 PN

[spathiphyllum]

I find it surprising that people have not seen £50 notes IRL.

You must be far from working in trade jobs.

Turing is a good shout.

[retrocop]

He was my first choice also Chill. No contest. Great.

[bednobs]

my wages (since I was 15) have always been paid directly to my bank

[DTCwordfan]

I wonder if I can break the code to replicate the note on my new printer...?

[agchristie]

//You must be far from working in trade jobs.//

A lot of people my age won't have handled one.

[retrocop]

//I wonder if I can break the code to replicate the note on my new printer...?//

Maybe. It's a real enigma and a Collosus task.

[agchristie]

DTC //I wonder if I can break the code to replicate the note on my new printer...?//

That depends surely on how enigmatic you are? ;-)

[retrocop]

Colossus*

[dannyk13]

They've changed a lot since the old white one.

[MargoTester]

Wasn't the white one £5 Danny

[naomi24]

I chose him too, chilld. Shame he was treated so badly when he was alive.

[DTCwordfan]

the first batch can always be a bit cumber-some to produce, my book 'Notes' by Hugh Alexander most useful though.

[dannyk13]

I was just comparing the difference in values.

[Mamyalynne]

Great choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A350_note#/media/File:White-note-50-pounds.jpg

[gingejbee]

Had the "old white one" been £50, it would have been worth several hundred at today's value...

[Mamyalynne]

//The £50 note ceased to be produced by the Bank of England in 1943 and did not reappear until it was reintroduced in 1981. //


Handled a few in the motor trade in the 80s and 90s.

[ummmm]

Pity hardly anyone takes them.

I'm surprised some have never seen one either.

[bobbs202]

The one I have has got James Watt and Mathew Bolton on it