Plus, the new five-pound note initially contained tallow, which led to protests by animal-rights activists. I don’t want that person staring up at me each time I open my wallet, any more than the unelected, uneducated, et cetera person. But she was replaced by arch-imperialist and staunch 1930s fan of Hitler and Mussolini, Winston Churchill. From 2001 through 2016, the five-pound note featured the 19th-century social reformer Elizabeth Fry. Ordering currency in a billfold became especially complex recently. ( Jane Austen, for instance, is on the tenner.) So I try to look exclusively at the obverse of pound notes, which represents people who are prominent for what they did, rather than who their papas were. I SPENT MUCH of last fall worrying how to put pound notes in my wallet.īecause I live most of the year in the United Kingdom, I must deal with the fact that an unelected, uneducated, uninviting, and undistinguished monarch is on one side of the currency.
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