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20 Pounds Clydesdale Bank - Glasgow, UK City of Architecture and Design
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank PLC |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 20 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | CLYDESDALE BANK PLC PROMISE TO PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT THEIR OFFICE HERE TWENTY POUNDS STERLING BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ALEXANDER GREEK THOMSON ARCHITECT 1817-1875 CHIEF EXECUTIVE GLASGOW 9TH APRIL 1999 Glasgow 1999 UK City of Architecture and Design |
| Reverse description | The reverse is centred on an intaglio rendering of Holmwood House, the celebrated Thomson villa, overlaid with a secondary vignette of a grand Victorian civic building with arched facades, executed in blue and red line engraving. A circular domed interior view is incorporated to the right of the composition. The 'Glasgow 1999 UK City of Architecture and Design' logo appears in red script in the lower right quadrant, with guilloche borders framing the entire field. |
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Clydesdale Bank issued this note in 1999 to mark Glasgow's designation as UK City of Architecture and Design — a title the city held that year as part of a rolling series of UK cultural city awards. It is a commemorative commercial banknote, which is unusual enough: Scottish clearing banks retain the right to issue their own notes under arrangements dating to well before the Bank of England's monopoly was consolidated in England, and they have occasionally used that privilege for commemorative purposes.
The Pick 229 series is scarce in genuinely circulated condition — most were set aside by collectors on issue.