In the UK, the Queen is the most noble symbol, so the obverse of all pounds is Queen Elizabeth II, and the pattern on the reverse varies according to the face value of the coin.

D series 1 pound - the great scientist Newton; D series 5 pounds - the Duke of Wellington who allowed Napoleon to "defeat Waterloo"; E series 5 pounds (1990 edition) - the inventor of the steam train Stevenson; D series ￡10 (1987 edition) - Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing; E series ￡10 (1992 edition) - the literary writer Dickens, on the left is a panel held in 1836 Ball game; D series ￡20 (1984 edition) - statue of dramatist Shakespeare; E series ￡20 (1991 edition) - physicist and chemist Faraday, on the left is the scene when he lectured at the Royal Society; D series ￡50 - Christopher Renn, who built St Paul's Cathedral.

E series ￡5: George Stevenson and his Rocket; E series ￡10 (old): Dickens and the cricket pitch in The Pickwick Papers; E series ￡10 ( New): Darwin and the Hummingbirds of the Galapagos Islands; Series E ￡20 (Old): Faraday and the Story of the Candle Science Lecture.

On the back of the new 5-pound version is a portrait of the 19th-century British philanthropist Elizabeth Frey, and on the left is a picture of her participating in charity activities; on the back of the 10-pound version is a portrait of the 19th-century British biologist Charles Darwin; the new version On the back of the ￡20 pound is Adam Smith, the economist who wrote "The Wealth of Nations"; on the back of the ￡50 pound is a portrait of John Hobron, the first governor of the Bank of England, with the bank's janitor on the left and his residence behind .