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« Last post by Alan71 on September 23, 2017, 10:33:17 PM »
Not sure if this has been done before on the forum (probably has) and possibly doesn't belong in this topic, but I've summarised the Wikipedia info for Series C banknotes onwards. I have no reason to think Wikipedia is inaccurate, and am confident it's been written by someone that knows the facts. In any case, the bits I can remember (from 1978 onwards) match what Wikipedia states.
Contrary to my previous post, there was and is a Series F. However, it was only used for the £20 and £50 denominations and is similar to Series G, but isn't in polymer.
Note the long changeover periods when notes were changed. These days, about nine months are the norm. It's likely that, as the eventual legal tender end date got nearer, the more rare the note became.
In all cases, Series C is the first portrait, Series D the second, and Series E, Series E (variant), Series F and Series G are the third portrait.
£50
Series D
20 March 1981 to 20 September 1996
Series E
20 April 1994 to 30 April 2014
Series F
From 2 November 2011
£20
Series D
9 July 1970 to 19 March 1993
Series E
5 June 1991 to 28 February 2001
Series E (variant)
22 June 1999 to 30 June 2010
Series F
From 13 March 2007
Series G (polymer)
By 2020
£10
Series C
21 February 1964 to 31 May 1979
Series D
20 February 1975 to 20 May 1994
Series E
29 April 1992 to 31 July 2003
Series E (variant)
7 November 2000 to Spring 2018 (?)
Series G (polymer)
From 14 September 2017
£5
Series C
21 February 1963 to 31 August 1973
Series D
11 November 1971 to 29 November 1991
Series E
7 June 1990 to 21 November 2003
Series E (variant)
21 May 2002 to 5 May 2017
Series G (polymer)
13 September 2016
£1
Series C
17 March 1960 to 31 May 1979
Series D
9 February 1978 to 11 March 1988
10s
Series C
12 October 1961 to 22 November 1970
Series D
Intended as 50p note following decimalisation; prepared and designed but never issued.
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