Banknotes of the pound sterling
（重定向自Fractional note）
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![An example of a provincial English banknote: a £1 note issued in 1814 by the Gloucester Old Bank](/Images/godic/202501/14/£1_Gloucester_Old_Bank_note_for_Charles_Evans_&_James_Fell_18144647.jpg")
![The Debden Security Printing Ltd printing facility, owned by De La Rue, which prints Bank of England banknotes.[26]](/Images/godic/202501/14/Bank_of_England_printing_at_Debden4647.jpg")
Sterling banknotes are the banknotes in circulation in the United Kingdom and its related territories, denominated in pounds sterling (symbol: £; ISO 4217 currency code GBP).
Sterling banknotes are official currency in the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Tristan da Cunha in St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. One pound is equivalent to 100 pence. Three British Overseas Territories also have currencies called pounds which are at par with the pound sterling.