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1 Pound Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank
| Issuer | Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1950-1960 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | The bank's armorial vignette is positioned at top centre, flanked by the motto inscriptions. A harbour scene with ships docked along the River Clyde forms the lower-left vignette, while an agricultural pastoral scene with haystacks in open fields occupies the lower right. The face bears the full promise-to-pay text and corporate title in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central landscape vignette of the River Clyde rapids above Lanark, rendered in intaglio with fine engraved linework conveying the movement of the water through a wooded gorge. The bank title is inscribed above the vignette. |
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The Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank was itself a product of merger — the Clydesdale Banking Company absorbed the North of Scotland Bank in 1950, and this note series reflects the transitional period when the combined institution was still establishing its unified identity. De La Rue produced the series in London, as they did for most Scottish commercial banks of the period who lacked domestic security printing facilities of sufficient scale.
Scottish banknotes have never been legal tender in the strict statutory sense — not even in Scotland — but circulated freely by long commercial convention and the backing of the issuing bank's own reserves.