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10 Pounds National Commercial Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | National Commercial Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | National Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited Promise to pay the bearer on demand Ten Pounds Sterling At the Head Office here Edinburgh By order of the Board of Directors |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a finely engraved intaglio vignette of the Tay Road Bridge spanning the Firth of Tay, with the city of Dundee visible on the far shore and small vessels on the water below. The bank title is set in letterpress at the upper portion of the note, with the £10 denomination numeral at upper right and lower left. The overall print is executed in a warm brown tone against a lightly tinted paper. |
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The National Commercial Bank of Scotland was itself a product of merger — formed in 1959 when the National Bank of Scotland absorbed the Commercial Bank of Scotland, two of the older Scottish private banks. This note predates the bank's next absorption by only a few years: the Royal Bank of Scotland took over the National Commercial in 1969, making the series short-lived by definition.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden works handled much of the Scottish commercial bank output during this period, and their intaglio printing on Scottish issues is consistently well-executed. The ten pound denomination circulated rarely in everyday transactions in 1960s Scotland — most examples found today show light use at best.