1 Pound Royal Bank of Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland's £1 notes of this period were printed by De La Rue under a long-standing contract that stretched back decades, but by the mid-1960s the bank was already aware that metrication and eventual decimalization — which arrived in February 1971 — would force a wholesale redesign of the entire series. Notes issued in 1967 were effectively late-run examples of a pre-decimal format with a known expiry on the horizon.

Scottish banknotes have never been legal tender in Scotland in the strict statutory sense — they circulate by custom and interbank agreement, a distinction that occasionally surprises even their issuers' own customers.