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King George I
12.8.1714 - 22.6.1727

King George II
22.6.1727 - 25.10.1760

King George III
25.10.1760 - 29.1.1820


UNITED KINGDOM Banknotes, 1694-1803 Issues

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN
United Kingdom of Great Britain 12.5.1707

Bank of England
P.25 - P.29  5-100 Pounds 1694-99 Images Needed
 P.35 - P.39   5-100 Pounds 1699-1707 Images Needed
P.40 - P.44  5-100 Pounds 1707-25 Images Needed
P.50 - P.54  20-60 Pounds 1725-39 Images Needed
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P.55  70 Pounds ND(1725)    BOE		 Uniface
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P.56  80 Pounds 14.3.1732    BOE		 Uniface
P.57 - P.63  90-1,000 Pounds 1725-39 Images Needed
P.64 - P.68  20-50 Pounds 1739-51 Images Needed
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P.69  40 Pounds 12.8.1747    BOE		 Uniface
P.70 - P.78  70-1,000 Pounds 1739-51 Images Needed
P.80 - P.95  10-1,000 Pounds 1751-59 Images Needed
P.100 - P.102  10-25 Pounds 1759-75 Images Needed
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P.103  25 Pounds 10.3.1772    BOE		 Hertford Cancellation
Uniface
P.104 - P.109 30-80 Pounds 1759-75 Images Needed
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P.110  90 Pounds 27.1.1761    BOE		 Uniface
P.111 - P.115  90-500 Pounds 1759-75 Images Needed
P.130 - P.146  10-1,000 Pounds 1775-78 Images Needed
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BACKGROUNDER

One of the first papermakers of English PM was the firm started by a Huguenot, Henri de Portal who escaped to England from France. He settled in 1712 at Bere Mill in South Hampton, He did so well that he leased a mill at Laverstoke, both on the river Test near Overton in Hampshire. Where, with the help of his fellow emigrants, he began to make paper from the wood of apple trees.

They did so well that in 1724 (or 1727, accounts differ) Henri de Portal obtained the privilege of making notes of the Bank of England. His son, Joseph Portal bought Laverstoke manor. Henri was later naturalized as Henry Portall of South Stoneham, gentleman. They also invented the metallic thread incorporated into the paper which started out within the paper later coming to the surface as a dotted line called "windowed thread"

Information contributed by: Stanley Serxer, Secretary of  NC - IBNS Chapter


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