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20 Pounds
| Emittent | Union Bank of Scotland Ltd. |
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| Jahr | 1950 |
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| Währung | Pound sterling (1694-date) |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is printed entirely in blue and carries a large central oval vignette rendered in detailed intaglio, illustrating a busy Clydeside industrial scene with shipyard cranes, factory chimneys belching smoke, workers on the quayside, a steam tug, and a large ocean liner under construction or fitting out. Corner medallions bearing the numeral 20 occupy each angle of the otherwise plain cream paper. The bank title THE UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND LIMITED is inscribed in a straight panel along the lower margin. |
| Rückseitenlegende | THE UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND LIMITED 20 |
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The Union Bank of Scotland was absorbed into the Bank of Scotland in 1955, making the early 1950s issues the final chapter of a note-issuing history stretching back to 1830. This 1950 twenty-pound note is among the last the Union Bank would produce as an independent institution — the merger negotiations were already underway before the decade was out.
Waterlow & Sons printed Scottish commercial bank notes throughout this period, and the quality of their intaglio work on high-denomination issues was generally reliable. The £20 saw limited everyday circulation by nature of its value in 1950s Scotland, which means surviving examples can show either minimal wear from hoarding or heavy folds from commercial use — the distribution is uneven across the series.