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Королевксий Банк Шотландии (Royal Bank of
Scotland) в пресс релизе от 25 апреля 2016
года сообщает о планируемом выпуске новых банкнот в 5 и 10 фунтов.
На 5 фунтах будет изображена шотландский поэт и романист Нэн Шеперд
10 фунтов - Мэри Сомервилл.
5 фунтов появится в обращении в конце 2016 года, 10 фунтов в 2017
году.
Банкноты полимерные.
Royal Bank of Scotland 5 фунтов
Royal Bank of Scotland 10 фунтов
Текст пресс-релиза:
New £5 and £10 polymer notes unveiled
The Royal Bank of Scotland
25 April 2016
The Royal Bank of Scotland has today unveiled the designs for its
new £5 and £10 polymer notes. It also announced that the Scottish
novelist and poet Nan Shepherd will feature on the £5 note when it
comes into circulation later this year.
The choice of Nan Shepherd to feature on the £5 note was taken by
the Scotland Board.
To design the notes Royal Bank of Scotland engaged with thousands of
people across Scotland through workshops, online communities and
polling surveys. As a result of this ‘the Fabric of Nature’ was
chosen as the theme to underpin the design elements of the note set.
The new notes will be printed on De La Rue’s Safeguard® Polymer
material and will also contain a variety of new security features,
making them difficult to counterfeit but easy to authenticate.
The choice of Nan Shepherd to feature on the £5 note was taken by
the RBS Scotland Board. This announcement follows the recent public
vote that led to scientist Mary Somerville being chosen to feature
on the £10 notes which will enter circulation in 2017.
On the choice of Nan Shepherd to appear on the £5 note, Robert
Macfarlane, writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
commented:
"It is thrilling to see Nan Shepherd celebrated and commemorated in
this way. Nan was a blazingly brilliant writer, a true original
whose novels, poems and non-fiction broke new ground in Scottish
literature, and her influence lives on powerfully today.
“Nan's book ‘The Living Mountain’ is a slender masterpiece that has
brought many thousands of readers to see the Scottish landscape with
fresh, astonished eyes. In person as in language, Nan followed her
own path - she was a woman of fierce independence and inspiring
vision.
“It is just wonderful news that she will now become known to
millions more people in Scotland and beyond."
Malcolm Buchanan, Chair, Scotland Board, said:
“I am delighted that we have been able to involve the public
throughout this process; from the workshops and surveys that helped
to decide on the theme, right through to the public vote that
resulted in Mary Somerville being chosen to feature on the £10 note.
“People in Scotland will be using this money every day and it is
quite right that they got to play an important role in designing it.
This truly is the people’s money.
“The Royal Bank of Scotland has never before featured a woman on its
main issue bank notes. It gives me enormous pleasure that we are
able to celebrate the fantastic, and often overlooked, achievements
of two great Scottish women. Both made huge contributions in their
respective fields."
A history of Royal Bank of Scotland bank notes.
The reverse of the £5 note features two Mackerel, the single most
valuable stock for the Scottish fishing industry, as well as an
excerpt from the poem ‘The Choice’ by Sorley MacLean. Behind the
portrait sits a picture of the Cairngorms, beloved by Nan Shepherd
and celebrated in her writing, as well as a quote from her book ‘The
Living Mountain’.
The £10 note sees two otters at play on the reverse and an excerpt
from the poem ‘Moorings’ by Norman MacCraig. Burntisland Beach,
where Mary Somerville lived as a child, features behind the
portrait, along with a quote from her work ‘The Connection of the
Physical Sciences’.
Источник:
Royal Bank of Scotland
Каталог сайта:
Шотландия
Scotland Royal
Bank of Scotland
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