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1 Pound Commercial Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | Commercial Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress text on a red guilloche underprint. An architectural vignette of the Commercial Bank of Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters façade is positioned at the top centre of the note. The body of the note carries the formal promise-to-pay legend and denomination in intaglio-style typography, with the issuing authority's name rendered in bold display lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, presenting a plain paper surface consistent with Scottish private bank note conventions of the period. |
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The Commercial Bank of Scotland had been printing its notes through Bradbury Wilkinson since the firm's early decades, a relationship typical of Scottish private banks that preferred London security printers over domestic alternatives. By 1883, the bank had absorbed several smaller Scottish institutions and its note circulation was substantial enough to warrant tight production controls.
Scottish banknotes of this period retained legal circulation rights not extended to English provincial banks — a distinction that survived the Bank Charter Act of 1844 precisely because Scottish banks lobbied hard and successfully against its full northern application.