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1 Pound Sterling
| Issuer | North of Scotland Bank Ltd. |
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| Year | 1928-1935 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1694-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into decorative panels with a blue and yellow colour scheme. At upper centre, a fine intaglio vignette presents a detailed view of a Gothic cathedral or university building, flanked by numeral '1' panels at upper left and right. The left margin carries two heraldic coat-of-arms vignettes stacked vertically within ornate frames. The central panel bears the issuing bank's title 'North of Scotland Bank Limited' in bold letterpress script above the promise-to-pay text and denomination 'ONE POUND', with the place of issue 'Aberdeen' and date printed below, all within an elaborate guilloche underprint. The serial number and two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre, with the printer's imprint visible along the bottom border. |
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| Reverse lettering | NORTH OF SCOTLAND BANK PURSUANT TO ACTS OF PARLIAMENT BON ACCORD FIDELITATE ET INDUSTRIA |
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The North of Scotland Bank was one of the smaller Scottish chartered banks, operating primarily out of Aberdeen. By the time this series was issued, the bank had already weathered a near-collapse in the 1870s and spent the following decades rebuilding its standing in the northeast. Bradbury, Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled a substantial portion of British provincial and colonial currency work in this period, and the quality of engraving on North of Scotland notes is noticeably finer than the bank's modest regional footprint might suggest.
The bank was absorbed into Clydesdale Bank in 1950, ending over a century of independent note issue from Aberdeen.