Harry Eccleston: Artist and Banknote Designer

krispy · May 28, 2010

Just an FYI: an obituary via CoinUpdate.com [5/28/2010]

Harry Eccleston: Artist and Banknote Designer from Capital Treasures.net [5/27/2010]

Harry Eccleston worked for more than 25 years as a banknote designer at the Bank of England and was best known for the series D notes, issued in 1978 and the first fully pictorial series. Eccleston’s portrait of the Queen was on the front of the notes and his drawings of Isaac Newton (£1), the Duke of Wellington (£5), Florence Nightingale (£10), Shakespeare (£20) and Christopher Wren (£50) were on the reverse.

He also designed a 50-pence note bearing the figure of Sir Walter Raleigh but it was judged that, in a time of galloping inflation, the life of such a low-denomination note would be short and so a coin was minted instead. His original drawings of the Queen and of Wren were presented to her and in the same year he was appointed OBE.

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Harry Eccleston, OBE, artist and banknote designer, was born on January 21, 1923. He died on April 30, 2010, aged 87

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via TimesOnline.co.uk [5/26/2010]

Also, for anyone with a copy of Gene Hessler's, The International Engraver's Line (2005), Harry Eccleston, O.B.E. has an entry on page 91.

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RickieB · Jun 1, 2010

RIP, Harry

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