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100 Pounds Clydesdale Bank
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1922-1947 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | The Clydesdale Bank Limited Promise to pay to the Bearer on Demand One Hundred Pounds Sterling At their Office here Glasgow By order of the Directors |
| Reverse description | Executed entirely in blue intaglio, the reverse centres on a large circular vignette of the bank's seal, showing a tree with a figure beside it, surrounded by an intricate guilloche border. The circular central motif is set within an elaborate lozenge-shaped frame of interlocking guilloche patterns, with the denomination numeral '100' repeated in circular panels at left and right. The bank name arcs around the central seal. |
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Clydesdale Bank's £100 note from this period was, in practical terms, a wholesale banking instrument rather than a note in everyday circulation. Denominations at this level in interwar Scotland moved between businesses and institutions; the public rarely handled them. Clydesdale had been absorbed into the Midland Bank group in 1920, just before this series began, though it retained its Scottish issuing rights and continued operating under its own name — a commercial compromise that preserved the appearance of regional independence.
The twenty-five year span of this type reflects wartime printing disruptions and the Bank of England's increasing pressure on Scottish issuers to consolidate their note ranges. High-denomination Scottish notes from the 1940s in particular are seldom encountered in any condition, having been retired and destroyed through normal banking channels rather than worn out in trade.