New £10 banknote with new king Charles III on them printing process UK

we're one month away from King Charles's coronation and with new monarch comes new money millions of banknotes featuring the image of the king are currently being made but will only enter circulation next year Kevin peachy has been given exclusive access to the printing process here's your change the new monarch means new portrait on new banknotes on this day alone 6 million Tenors carrying the image of King Charles are being printed for the bank of England in this highly secure site they're ready to begin replacing nearly 5 billion notes out there featuring The Queen but only as the older ones become worn or damaged up until now she's been the one and only monarch shown on the bank circulating notes to the green currency which will still be accepted in the shops the king is already on 50 pence coins but the Monarch doesn't appear on banknotes issued by banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland and these look but aren't quite ready to go out you may not be lucky enough to have wad of cash like this that's 50 000 pounds but even to just get one of these notes you're going to have to wait until the middle of next year when the King Charles note Center circulation the bank's Chief cashier whose signature is on these notes says there's plenty to prepare in the next 12 months there's huge amount that has to happen just to make sure that people can use their banknotes there are thousands of machines up and down the country that take banknotes things like self-service checkouts and supermarkets and they all have to be updated to recognize the new designs but do we still use cash to pay where better to judge than that's the king's head site with its own Rich history said to have once hosted James II think we know it's the biggest change during covid people did not using their phones more their watches their credit cards how did you pay did you use these this is this it's so much faster it's lot easier lot quicker and you keep control so yeah think you know as dinosaur we've moved on and evolved and you go that's the future isn't it is there anything you use cash for these days parking you know the pound meters that is literally yeah and car washes that is literally it so cash May no longer be king but in time and for some time to come Kings will be on our cash Kevin peachy BBC News fascinating seeing all that money isn't it yes well it's different world isn't it