Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Pound Sterling
| Issuer | North of Scotland Bank Limited |
|---|---|
| Year | 1882 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Pound sterling (1694-date) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central intaglio vignette of a grand Gothic institutional building, flanked by the large letterpress numerals ONE to either side at the upper corners. The bank title THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND BANK LIMITED is inscribed in bold capitals below the vignette, with a manuscript-style promise-to-pay text reading ONE POUND Sterling below, dated at Aberdeen. The serial number appears at lower left and upper right, with the manager's signature at lower right and the note overprinted CANCELLED in red across the face. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | ONE THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND BANK LIMITED Promise to pay to the Bearer on demand ONE POUND Sterling at their Office here Aberdeen By order of the Directors. Designed & Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston Limited, Edinburgh |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The North of Scotland Bank, headquartered in Aberdeen, had operated since 1836 as a regional rival to the Edinburgh-based clearing banks. By 1882 it was one of the smaller Scottish note-issuing banks still asserting that right — a privilege tied to pre-Union banking history that Westminster periodically threatened to curtail but never did during the bank's independent lifetime.
W. & A.K. Johnston were primarily a cartographic and engraving house, and their banknote work was a secondary line. The North of Scotland Bank was absorbed into the Clydesdale Bank in 1950, after which its right of issue lapsed.