# New £20 design revealed

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/10/14/new-20-design-revealed/
- Published: 2019-10-14T09:00:54+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Bank of England has unveiled the design of the new polymer £20 note, which
will be launched on 20 February next year.**

Featuring the artist JMW Turner, the new note contains sophisticated security features
designed to make it the most secure Bank of England banknote yet. For the first 
time, it incorporates two see-through windows and a two-colour foil to make it more
difficult to counterfeit. There is also a metallic hologram, which changes between
the word ‘Twenty’ and ‘Pounds’ when the note is tilted.

 

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#### Special features

 * Large see-through window with a blue and gold foil on the front featuring Margate
   lighthouse and Turner Contemporary. The window is in the shape of the fountains
   at Trafalgar Square, London
 * Small see-through window in the bottom corner of the note: the shape is inspired
   by Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire
 * JMW Turner’s self-portrait, painted around 1799
 * Turner painting ‘The Fighting Temeraire’
 * A quote “Light is therefore colour” from a lecture by Turner in 1818 that refers
   to the use of light, shade, colour and tone in his pictures

The paper £20 will remain legal tender when the new note is introduced and gradually
withdrawn as they are deposited in banks by retailers and the public. The Bank of
England will give six months’ notice ahead of it being withdrawn.

The note will join the existing Churchill £5 and the Austen £10, with the Bank of
England expecting to issue the new polymer £50 note featuring Alan Turing in 2021.

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