In the UK, the Queen is the most noble symbol, so the obverse of all British pounds is Queen Elizabeth II, and the reverse pattern varies according to the face value of the coin.
D series £1 – Great scientist Newton; D series £5 – Duke of Wellington who made Napoleon “defeat Waterloo”; E series £5 (1990 edition) – Stevenson who invented the steam train; D series £10 (1987 edition) – Nightingale, founder of modern nursing; £10 series E (1992 edition) – Dickens, the writer, with a cricket match in 1836 on the left; £20 series D ( 1984 edition) – Statue of the dramatist Shakespeare; E series £20 (1991 edition) – Faraday, physicist and chemist, with scenes from his lecture at the Royal Society on the left; D series £50 – Construction of St. Paul’s University Christopher Renn of Church Gram.
£5 series E: George Stevenson and his Rocket; £10 series E (old): Dickens and the Cricket Ground in The Pickwick Papers; £10 series E (new): Darwin and Gala Hummingbirds in the Pagos Islands; £20 Series E (Old): Faraday and The Tale of Candles Science Lectures.
The back of the new £5 is a portrait of 19th-century British philanthropist Elizabeth Frey, and the left side is her pattern of participating in charity activities; the back of the £10 is a portrait of Charles Darwin, a British 19th-century biologist; the back of the new £20 is the author The economist Adam Smith of “The Wealth of Nations”; the back of the 50 pounds is a portrait of John Hoblen, the first governor of the Bank of England, the janitor of the bank on the left, and his residence in the back.