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100 Pounds Sterling
| Uitgever | National Bank of Scotland |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1831 |
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| Waarde | 100 Pounds Sterling |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Printed in black on white paper, the obverse is framed by a fine engraved border with ornate corner pieces. Three oval guilloche vignettes bearing the denomination numeral 100 are positioned across the upper register, flanking a central heraldic vignette of St. George and the Dragon with a lion, shield, and royal standard. Below, the promise-to-pay text is rendered in copperplate script, with manuscript spaces for date and place of issue reading Edinburgh, and a SPECIMEN overprint appears in the lower right. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is essentially plain white paper with minimal printed content, consistent with early nineteenth-century Scottish banknote practice. Faint embossed or impressed marks are visible in the right-centre area, likely remnants of a dry seal or validation stamp. The surface shows age-related toning and foxing consistent with the note's antiquity. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The National Bank of Scotland was established by royal charter in 1825, making this 1831 note among the earliest issues from an institution less than a decade old. Scottish banks retained the legal right to issue their own notes — a privilege English provincial banks lost under the Bank Charter Act of 1844 — and the National Bank exercised that right aggressively from the outset, printing across a full denomination range to compete with the already-dominant Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank.
At £100, this was not a note that passed through ordinary hands. Wholesale trade settlements and inter-merchant transfers were its natural environment. The dry seal impression, applied without moisture or wax, was the primary anti-forgery measure available at the time — rudimentary by later standards, but consistent with early 1830s Scottish banking practice.