Bank of England Thursday presented the new £ 5 note (6.5 euros, 7.2 dollars) that will take the image of Winston Churchill and is the country’s first made of plastic.
the ticket will flow from September ye stará made of polymer, a thin plastic film and flexible that is more durable and harder to fake than paper, which is already used in Australia and Canada.
the ticket was presented in ancestral home of the Churchill mansion Blenheim, where the leader, was born very close to Oxford in the south of the country.
the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney recalled the spirit wrestler who was prime minister during World War and said the currency is a form of “ memory for a country and its people.”
the ticket carries a famous quote of Churchill (1874-1965) of World War II: “I have nothing to offer but blood, hard work, tears and sweat.”
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