So Alan Turing is the new £50 note pinup.
I think the only way I, and many others, will see this will be in the media. Over the past 25 years I have only ever seen two £50 notes. The last time I ever had one to spend was in the mid eighties, that was because my weekly wage then was £50 and change after tax so Securicor found it easier to just put one note in my wage packet {and change} than more notes that needed to be counted in, so I usually had to put it in my bank account then ask for money in smaller denominations. We did go out for a meal once, with me carrying a £50 note,and I ordered food and drinks for four of us, when told the cost I produced the £50 note and the look of horror on the waitresses face and she refused to take it. I asked for the manager and he said the same, till I pointed out that he either takes the note or we have meals and drinks free {as we had already ordered everything} followed by a letter to the D.T. stating how cr*ppy the service was there......he took the note.
Like the Mona Lisa, unless you visit the Louvre in Paris you will never get to see it, Alan Turing's the same 80% of the population will never see or use such a note so what was the point, you may as well have put a dog turd on the back.