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20 Pounds Clydesdale Bank - Robert the Bruce
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank PLC |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Robert I (the Bruce) at left, crowned and in regal attire, set against a heraldic banner; the large numeral '20' in intaglio with the Clydesdale Bank monogram forms the central design element, flanked by a guilloche underprint in purple and pink tones. The Clydesdale Bank shield device appears to the right, with serial numbers printed vertically along the right margin. Date and signature of the Chief Operating Officer appear at the lower centre. |
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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 700th Anniversary 1306-2006 |
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Clydesdale Bank has issued notes from Glasgow continuously since 1838, and this 2006 series was produced at the bank's own De La Rue-assisted facility — one of the few remaining instances of a British commercial bank maintaining meaningful involvement in its own note production rather than outsourcing entirely. The Robert the Bruce £20 sits in a long-running commemorative lineage that Clydesdale used deliberately to reinforce its distinctly Scottish identity during a period when Scottish devolution had sharply raised public interest in institutional differentiation from London-based banking.
Scottish banknotes carry no legal tender status anywhere in the United Kingdom, a fact that remains a persistent source of confusion and occasional refusal at English tills — a commercial irritant Clydesdale has never resolved, only managed through public information campaigns.