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   ocr: UNITED KINGDOM Pound The portrait you a seeon this a five-pound note is of Queen - - - Elizabeth II, the constitutional s 488F303 aVs monarch of Great Britain and & Northern Ireland. Elizabeth became queen in 1952. She is - CSLYEL popular with her people, but serves more as a symbol of the nation than a politicalfigure. front On the back of this bill is a BANESENGZAND picture of inventor and ME Pouvs railway developer George Slephenson(781-1848), He is shownwith his famous Racket locomotive. The modem age of railway began in 1830 with the openung of his Liverpoal a and Manchester lire. back