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20 Pound (Town & County Banking Company)
| Issuer | Town and County Bank, Limited |
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| Year | 1894 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1707-1970) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on blue underprint. A panoramic engraved vignette of Aberdeen cityscape with river and bridge occupies the upper centre, flanked by numeral "20" counters set within intricate guilloche rosettes. The left vertical panel contains three stacked vignettes: two circular guilloche medallions and a finely engraved view of a neoclassical bank building. A large blue guilloche panel in the centre carries the overprinted denomination "TWENTY POUNDS STERLING" in bold letters over the promise-to-pay inscription. The date "Aberdeen 1st March 1894" appears below, with signature lines for Manager and Secretary, the word "ESTABLISHED 1825" at the foot, and marginal notations "INCORPORATED 1862" and "REGISTERED 1882" along the left and right borders respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | TWENTY / The Town and County Bank, Limited / Promise to Pay the Bearer on Demand TWENTY POUNDS Sterling at their Office here / ABERDEEN 1st March 1894 / By order of the Directors / MANAGER. / SECRETARY. / ESTABLISHED 1825. / INCORPORATED 1862. / REGISTERED 1882. / Perkins Bacon & Co London. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the blind embossed show-through of the obverse intaglio design visible as a mirror image through the paper, confirming the single-sided printing typical of Scottish provincial banknotes of this period. |
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