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| 表面の銘文 | THE NATIONAL BANK The National Bank of Scotland Promise to pay to Matthew Edwards or Bearer on demand ONE GUINEA Sterling By order of the Board of Directors Edinburgh |
| 裏面の説明 | Printed in black and red ink. The reverse carries a large central circular guilloche vignette in black with the word ONE at the centre, surrounded by intricate lathe-work. Red overprint elements include the word FIVE within the guilloche and rectangular grid patterns at the left, centre, and right margins. A blind embossed circular stamp impression is visible at lower right. |
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Perkins, Bacon & Petch introduced steel-plate engraving to British banknote production in the early 1820s, a direct challenge to the copper-plate tradition then dominant among Scottish issuers. The National Bank of Scotland, founded only in 1825, adopted this technology from the outset — this note is among the earliest issued by the bank, quite possibly from its opening year of operation.
The guinea denomination itself was already an anachronism by 1825, surviving in Scottish banking practice long after it had disappeared from English issue. Scotland retained it partly through commercial convention and partly because guinea-denominated accounts remained common in professional and agricultural transactions north of the border.