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20 Pounds Clydesdale Bank - Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank PLC |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CLYDESDALE BANK PLC PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT THEIR OFFICE HERE TWENTY POUNDS STERLING BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHIEF EXECUTIVE GLASGOW 30th SEPTEMBER 1997 ROBERT THE BRUCE |
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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.