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£100 note: £100: in circulation Issued by Scottish and Northern-Irish banks only. £1,000,000 note: £1,000,000: non-circulating Also known as a "Giant". Used as backing for banknotes issued by Scottish and Northern Irish banks when exceeding the value of their 1845 reserves. The amount to be covered is over a billion pounds. [12]
The one hundred pound coin (£100) is a commemorative denomination of sterling coinage. Issued for the first time by the Royal Mint in 2015 and sold at face value, £100 coins hold legal tender status but are intended as collectors' items and are rarely found in general circulation. [ 1 ]
The half farthing ( 1 / 8 of a penny, 1 / 1920 of a pound) coin was initially minted in 1828 for use in Ceylon, but was declared legal tender in the United Kingdom in 1842. [ 61 ] The third farthing ( 1 / 12 of a penny, 1 / 2880 of a pound) coin was minted for use in Malta , starting in 1827.
As of December 2024, a 1920 Indian Head Gold Coin in circulated condition is worth between $20,000 and $75,000. But that value rises to as much as $2 million for specimens in pristine ...
Commemorative coins have been issued by the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom since 1935. Initially they only came out to mark events of great interest, but since the turn of the millennium have been minted yearly.
A First Trust Bank £100 note. Until June 2020, First Trust Bank issued notes in denominations of £10, £20, £50 and £100. The notes bear portraits of generic Northern Irish people on the front with varied illustrations on the reverse. [125] Until 1993 the bank issued notes under its former trading name, Allied Irish Banks.
The Bank of England, which is now the central bank of the United Kingdom, British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories, has issued banknotes since 1694. In 1921 the Bank of England gained a legal monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales, a process that started with the Bank Charter Act 1844, when the ability of other banks to issue notes was restricted.
First Trust Bank's current notes have a generic depiction of a Northern Irish person. A young middle-aged man appears on the £10 note, an elderly woman on the £20 note, an elderly man on the £50 note, and finally both elderly people together on the £100 note. Prior to 1994, the elderly man featured on the £100 note.