the ten shilling note went out of circulation on 22 november 1970.
when did the ten shilling note go out of circulation?
22 november 1970
a new design for ten-shilling notes was introduced in 1961, with the old notes ceasing to be legal tender in 1962. these new series c notes were slightly longer and narrower, and were the first ten-shilling notes to feature a portrait of queen elizabeth ii on the front. the reverse design incorporated the logo of the bank of england. in the late 1960s it was decided that future banknotes should feature a british historical figure on the reverse. the first such note was the series d £20 note, first issued in 1970, featuring william shakespeare. a design for a ten-shilling note featuring walter raleigh on the reverse was approved in 1964 but was never issued. instead, in 1969, as part of the process of decimalisation, a new fifty pence coin was introduced as a replacement for the ten-shilling note. the principal reason for the change was economy: the notes had an average lifetime of about five months whereas coins could last at least fifty years. the series c ten shilling notes ceased to be legal tender on 22 november 1970. in the isle of man, both the english and manx ten shilling notes continued to be legal tender for fifty new pence until 2013.
bank of england 10s note
the one pound note still in circulation in scotland is occasionally referred to as a "sheet" and thus the ten shilling note as a "half sheet". more commonly the ten shilling note was a "ten bob note" or, in london, "half a bar".









































"as bent as a nine bob note" is or was common colloquial phrase used to describe something or someone crooked or counterfeit.









































in pub culture five and ten pound notes are sometimes called "blue beer tokens" and "brown beer tokens" respectively.
slang terms for money