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100 Pounds North of Scotland Bank
| Issuer | North of Scotland Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1938-1949 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1707-1970) |
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| Obverse description | The bank's heraldic arms appear at upper left and upper right, flanking the bank title in Gothic script across the top. A central vignette presents a detailed intaglio view of King's College, Aberdeen, set within a decorative frame, with guilloche borders running along all edges. The denomination £100 is rendered in large numerals within an ornate cartouche at right, with a second arms vignette at lower right and a blank oval reserve at left. |
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| Reverse lettering | North of Scotland Bank Limited One Hundred Pounds Pursuant to Acts of Parliament 16 & 17 Vic. Cap. 63 & 43 Vic. Cap 76 |
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The North of Scotland Bank Limited was absorbed into the Clydesdale Bank in 1950, which makes notes from this final decade of independent issue the last of their kind from Aberdeen. High-denomination Scottish provincial notes from this period circulated almost exclusively between commercial clients and other banks — retail use of a £100 note in 1940s Scotland was essentially nonexistent.
De La Rue's production records for wartime Scottish bank contracts are incomplete, and it is not always possible to determine whether specific printings within the 1938–1949 date range were delivered before or after the disruptions of 1940–41.