he new £10 note entered into circulation on  thursday 14th September 2017.

It features English novelist Jane Austen with plump cheeks and a calm expression, taken from a portrait which was commissioned after her death at the age of 41.
Jane Austen is the only woman – apart from the Queen – to now feature on an English bank note, following the withdrawal of the old £5 notes in May, which featured Elizabeth Fry.
Fry was replaced with a picture of Winston Churchill.Paper bank notes – £5, £10 and £20 – are slowly being replaced by plastic notes, which are more secure and resilient to counterfeiting, more resistant to dirt and more durable.