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| 正面铭文 | Leith Banking Company ONE POUND The Leith Banking Company Promise to pay Henry Johnston or Bearer TWENTY SHILLINGS Sterling on demand at their Office in Leith By order of the Directors |
| 背面描述 | Printed in red and black ink, the reverse centres on a large circular guilloche vignette composed of fine lathe-work engine-turning, within which a central oval cartouche contains the Royal arms with a mounted St. George slaying the dragon rendered in red. Two smaller red circular medallions flank the central device, and the denomination 'FIVE PENCE' appears in red within the lower arc of the circular border, all enclosed by a wreath of engraved floral ornament. |
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The Leith Banking Company was a relatively short-lived provincial Scottish institution, established in 1793 and absorbed into the Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1842 — meaning notes of this period were in active circulation only briefly before being called in. The four-year window between this issue and the merger makes survivors uncommon.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were the dominant security printers of the period, their steel intaglio process borrowed from American banknote practice and introduced to Britain by Jacob Perkins himself. That technology, not the issuing bank's prestige, is what gave this note its forgery resistance.