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1 Pound Commercial Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | Commercial Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 1954-1958 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | The Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. Promise to pay the bearer on demand One Pound Sterling At the office here Edinburgh By order of the Court of Directors |
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| Reverse lettering | The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited Incorporated by Royal Charter and Act of Parliament Established 1810 |
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The Commercial Bank of Scotland was absorbed into the National Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1959, making this series among the last issued under that name. Notes dated within this window are terminal issues — the bank had already been in merger discussions for several years before the formal consolidation.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled Scottish commercial bank work throughout the postwar decades, and their intaglio printing quality on Scottish pound notes from this period is generally consistent. The watermark is the sole security feature, which was already considered minimal by the mid-1950s even for provincial issues.