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20 Pounds Clydesdale Bank
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1964-1967 |
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| Value | 20 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on a pale ground, the obverse carries the bank's heraldic arms as a central vignette to the right, enclosed within a decorative rosette border, with the denomination numeral '20' repeated at upper left and lower right corners within guilloche panels. The promise-to-pay legend and issuing city of Glasgow with date appear in the centre, above the large intaglio denomination text 'TWENTY POUNDS'. A facsimile signature of the General Manager appears at lower centre above the serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | Clydesdale Bank Limited Promise to pay the bearer on demand at their office here Twenty Pounds By order of the Board of Directors Glasgow General Manager |
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Clydesdale Bank's reliance on Thomas De La Rue for this series placed it firmly within the London-printed Scottish note tradition of the postwar decades, when several Scottish clearing banks outsourced security printing rather than maintaining their own facilities. The £20 denomination was always a low-circulation value in Scotland during this period — high enough that most examples returned to the bank quickly rather than passing through many hands.
The series was superseded as Clydesdale modernised its note designs through the late 1960s following the bank's absorption into the Midland Bank group in 1963, a change in ownership that accelerated several operational decisions including printing contracts.