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20 Pounds Clydesdale Bank - Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank PLC |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Size | 150 × 80 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Robert the Bruce in armour and crown at left, set within a fine guilloche underprint. The numeral '20' appears in a large oval vignette at centre-right, surrounded by a sunburst and geometric patterns, with the denomination '£20' in the upper-right corner. A facsimile signature of the Chief Executive appears below the central vignette, dated Glasgow 30th September 1997, with a ship vignette at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING EDINBURGH OCTOBER 1997 CLYDESDALE BANK PLC EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE |
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Clydesdale Bank issued this commemorative £20 specifically for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held in Edinburgh in October 1997 — one of the very few instances a Scottish commercial bank produced a note tied to a specific diplomatic event rather than a routine series replacement. The bank had strong historical reasons to associate itself with the occasion, Edinburgh being both the CHOGM host city and the seat of Scotland's financial establishment.
Printed in Glasgow by the bank's usual production arrangement, the run was limited and many notes were purchased as souvenirs rather than spent, which has created the counterintuitive situation where circulated examples are now harder to source than uncirculated ones.