Bank of England £5 note (£5) were introduced by the Bank of England in 1793, following the ten pound note which had been introduced in 1759 as a consequence of gold shortages caused by the Seven Years' War. The 5 pound note was introduced again, due to gold shortages caused by the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars and was the lowest denomination of note issued until 1797. The earliest notes were handwritten and were issued to individuals as needed. These notes were written on one side only and bore the name of the payee, the date and the signature of the issuing cashier.
Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran India Limited (SPMCIL), a public sector undertaking wholly owned by Government of India. BRBNMPL has two presses in Mysore and Salboni. The present capacity for both the presses is 16 billion note pieces per year on a 2-shift basis. The company made a world record by printing more than 20,000 million pieces of bank notes in financial year 2016-17, The company has its own design cell. It has the capability to print all the denominations of Indian bank Notes. The other two bank note presses of SPMCIL are Currency Note Press Nashik Road, and Bank Note Presses which print bank