Catalog
1 Guinea
| Issuer | Royal Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 1824 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1694-date) |
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| Obverse description | An engraved copperplate note in the early nineteenth-century Scottish tradition, with a circular vignette at upper centre enclosing a profile portrait bust, flanked by the imprints EDINBURGH and ONE GUINEA. A decorative guilloche border panel at left carries ROYAL BANK in vertical letterpress, while the body of the note bears a formal promise-to-pay text in flowing copperplate script with ONE GUINEA set in bold relief against a dark underprint panel. The authorisation concludes with the line By order of the Court of Directors. |
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| Obverse lettering | EDINBURGH ONE GUINEA ROYAL BANK The Royal Bank of Scotland promise to pay to Andrew Bogle or the bearer ONE GUINEA on demand at their Office here By order of the Court of Directors. |
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| Signature(s) | Arch Bonar and Geo Laing |
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