Britain unveils new plastic £10 note

21-Jul-17

A new plastic £10 note has been unveiled by Bank of England governor Mark Carney at Winchester Cathedral. The notewill be issued on 14 September. It is the first Bank of England note to include a tactile feature to help visually impaired people, and has a portrait of Jane Austen on the 200th anniversary of the author's death.
The new £10 notes contain sophisticated security features and are expected to last five years, which is two-and-a-half times longer than the current note. Production of the new £10 polymer note began last August and the Bank has already printed more than 275 million notes, but they're not quite ready to launch yet. The new note will be smaller than the current one - but larger than the new fiver.