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New £50 note featuring Alan Turing to enter circulation in June

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Bank of England and will go into circulation on 23 June, the date of his birth.The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, was due to reveal the design, which incorporates several features relating to Turing, on Thursday morning.The note features a photo of Turing taken in 1951, three years before his death, plus his signature, ticker-tape depicting his birth date in binary code, and a quote from an interview that he gave: “This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.”The arrival of this latest polymer note means the Bank has completed its switch away from paper money.It will join the Churchill £5, the Austen £10 and the Turner £20, all produced in polymer, which is said to last longer and stay.

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