Chris Salmon £50 Boulton/Watt nd (2011) B410 Unc

Chris Salmon £20 Mauve Queen Eliz/ Adam Smith B409 Unc. Chris Salmon’s term as Chief Cashier was one of the shortest in Bank of England history. He succeeded Andrew Bailey on 1st April 2011 and just three years later on the 1st June 2014. He was then succeeded by Victoria Cleland. The first £20 notes with his signature appeared on 12th September 2012. They followed the Adam Smith design first introduced under Bailey (B409) A mature portrait of Queen Elizabeth II appears on the front. A profile portrait of Adam Smith, father of modern economics is on the back alongside a vignette of pin manufacturing, a reference from his most famous work The Wealth of Nations. Crisp Uncirculated.

Crisp Uncirculated examples of the Portrait 10/- issued by the Bank of England with the signature of L K O’Brien (B286) It was while O’Brien was Chief Cashier that the bank introduced ten shilling notes with the portrait of the reigning monarch. Often missing from collections. Crisp Uncirculated

Given we now have a new polymer £50 in circulation, we thought that now might be a good time to look back at the paper issues of the £50 first introduced in 1994. The design was chosen to mark the 300th Anniversary of the bank’s founding in 1694. The portrait of the first Governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Houblon, appears on the back. His tenure is remembered today in the uniform of the bank’s gatekeepers which was based on the livery of Sir John Houblon’s own staff. A vignette of an early gatekeeper and a view of the façade of Houblon’s house in Threadneedle Street also features. The Houblon £50 on offer have with the signature of Andrew Bailey who, it so happens, is the current Bank of England Governor (B404)