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100 Pounds Royal Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | Royal Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 1969 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in red on a pale pink ground, with an oval guilloche underprint at left centre and fine lathe-work border decorations throughout. The bank's heraldic arms — supported by two unicorns and bearing the motto FIRM on the escutcheon — appear as an intaglio vignette at lower centre. Two manuscript-style signatures of the General Manager appear flanking the arms, with the serial number printed twice in red at upper right and lower left. |
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| Protection description | the bank's heraldic device visible when held to light |
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Bradbury Wilkinson handled the bulk of RBS's higher denomination printing through this period, and their intaglio work on the £100 notes of the late 1960s is characteristically precise — the firm's reputation rested on security printing contracts across dozens of countries, and quality control was stringent. The 1969 date places this note in the final years before decimalization, which took effect in February 1971, after which existing pound-series notes were gradually withdrawn.
At £100, this denomination saw almost no ordinary retail circulation — it functioned primarily in interbank settlement and large commercial transactions. Genuinely circulated examples are unusual for that reason alone.