Replica Pounds

A little insight of how the new pound notes are made by the royal mint, not us. They use a transparent plastic film, difficult to counterfeit with a special coated ink layer that carries the design of the notes. Lithographic printing is the technique used to create the new £5 notes, this is a dry offset printing process used to apply ink to the polymer substrate.

The silver foil patch at the bottom of the tower has a hologram of the word ‘Five’ changing to the word ‘Pounds’ and under UV light, the number 5 appears in bright red and green colors. If you shine a laser through the Queen’s neck (on the new fiver) you will also create a field of stars on the wall behind..