{"id":15474,"date":"2019-10-14T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15474"},"modified":"2019-10-14T11:05:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:05:42","slug":"new-design-for-britains-most-forged-banknote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/new-design-for-britains-most-forged-banknote\/","title":{"rendered":"New Design For Britain&#8217;s Most Forged Banknote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new design of Britain&#8217;s most common, and most forged, banknote has been unveiled by the Bank of England.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Security features on the next \u00a320 note, featuring artist JMW Turner, will include similar features to the 5 and 10 pound note; two see through windows on the note and a metallic hologram. In the first half this year, 88% of detected fake notes were \u00a320 notes, statistics show.<\/p>\n<p>The new design, which the Bank describes as its most secure, enters circulation on 20 February next year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_95608\"  width=\"1320\" height=\"743\"  data-origwidth=\"1320\" data-origheight=\"743\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QosX5LvJRdM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The current \u00a320 note is the most common note circulating at the moment, with over 2 billion notes in circulation. That&#8217;s double the number of \u00a310 notes in circulation, and far greater than the number of \u00a35 notes (396 million) and \u00a350 notes (344 million).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 542px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/7AF5\/production\/_109177413_banknotes-nc.png\" alt=\"banknotes usage chart\" width=\"532\" height=\"432\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">:\/\/ BBC and Bank Of England.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The popularity of the note is part of the reason for it also being the most likely to be forged.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank discovered 228,000 counterfeit banknotes in the first half of the year, of which 201,000 were \u00a320 notes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost certainly the most commonly forged Bank of England banknote in each of the past 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new design of Britain&#8217;s most common, and most forged, banknote has been unveiled by the Bank of England.\u00a0 Security features on the next \u00a320 note, featuring artist JMW Turner, will include similar features to the 5 and 10 pound note; two see through windows on the note and a metallic hologram. 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