England (1971-1990)

This serie of banknotes belongs to the period of the history of England in which the reform of the local system took place with the Local Government Act of 1972 and the rebellion rate-capping of 1985 (which sought to eliminate the ceiling of spending of the city councils), and the period of the United Kingdom after the return of the conservatives to the power of the hand of Edward Heath, who did not manage to stop the economic decline of the country and was replaced in 1974 by the Laborist Harold Wilson, in whose government the economic crisis worsened and did not improve with his successor James Callaghan. Strict modernization of its economy began under the controversial conservative leader Margaret Thatcher since 1979, which liberalized the stock markets, state industries were privatized, inflation fell during this period and union power was reduced. However, the strike of the miners of 1984-1985 caused the end of most of the coal mining, replaced by the exploitation of gas and oil from the North Sea, also at which time the IRA took the issue of Ireland from the North to Great Britain, maintaining a prolonged campaign of attacks on the British continent. After the economic boom of the 1980s, there was a brief but serious recession between 1990, when it was replaced by John Major. There are banknotes of 1 pound, 5 pounds, 10 pounds, 20 pounds and 50 pounds.

1 pound (one pound)

This banknotes worth 1 pound was first circulated in 1978. On the main side right, you can see the queen Elizabeth II, queen of the UK, that has been reigning for more than 60 years and a 1. In the center it has a caduceus and a cornucopia, the written value of the banknote and in the upper part, the name of the National Bank in English (Bank of England). In the left there's the National Bank logo and a gap for the digital watermark. The rest of the banknote is fulled with decorative elements.
On the other side you can see Isaac Newton, a 17th century English physicist, philosopher, theologian and mathematician who described the law of universal gravitation, laid the foundations of classical mechanics, optics and infinitesimal calculus, with his telescope and the heliocentric system. The rest of the banknote is fulled with decorative elements, a 1 and the written value of the banknote. This banknote has Isaac Newton as digital watermark and a security thread too. The size of this banknote is 13.5 cm x 6.8 cm.