The Famous 'Faces' Ruling Powerful Currencies
4) United Kingdom
Currency: Pound sterling
Currency denomination: 50 pounds
Personalities: Elizabeth II
The constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states, Elizabeth II is known as the Commonwealth realms. She is the head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations. Elizabeth II is Supreme Governor of the England Church and, in some of her realms, holds the title of Defender of the Faith as part of her full title.
5) New Zealand
Currency: Dollar
Currency denomination: 100 New Zealand dollars
Personality: Lord Rutherford of Nelson
A New Zealand-born physicist and chemist, Lord Rutherford of Nelson often referred as the ‘father of nuclear physics and the ‘father of the atom’. He was responsible for the invention of the radioactive concept, ‘Half-life.’ Rutherford proved the possible transformation of one chemical to another chemical element and at the same time differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation.
In 1908, he was awarded Nobel Prize "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.”
