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| 正面描述 | The obverse is printed in black intaglio on aged laid paper, centred on a detailed allegorical vignette surmounted by a royal crown, with a classical maritime or regal scene enclosed within an ornate cartouche bearing the inscription ONE GUINEA at top. Below the vignette, the bank title THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND is rendered in elaborate copperplate script, followed by the promise-to-pay text and a second guilloche oval bearing ONE GUINEA at centre. The note includes manuscript date (4 Nov 1826), handwritten payee name, and carries two manuscript signatures — one for the accountant and one for the cashier — along with the serial number in the upper right and lower left corners. |
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| 背面描述 | The reverse is printed in a warm brown intaglio, dominated by three large interlocking guilloche rosettes arranged horizontally across the centre of the note, each enclosing a classical standing figure — a male figure to the left, a facing portrait head at centre, and a draped female figure to the right. Above the rosette composition, a royal coat of arms with supporters is rendered in fine engraving, flanked by additional smaller guilloche medallions at the four corners. The denomination ONE GUINEA appears in ornate script at the lower centre, beneath which a line of small printed text identifies the engraver or printer. |
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The guinea denomination was already anachronistic by 1826 — Guinea coinage had ceased with the introduction of the sovereign in 1817, and banks clinging to the guinea valuation (21 shillings rather than the pound's 20) were operating in a commercial tradition rather than a monetary one. The Royal Bank's continued use of it reflected the persistence of guinea pricing in professional and mercantile transactions in Scotland long after the coin itself had vanished.
Scottish banks retained the right to issue their own notes after the 1826 crisis that stripped English provincial banks of that privilege — a political fight in which Sir Walter Scott's publicly anonymous "Letters of Malachi Malagrowther" played a direct role in swaying Parliament.