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20 Pounds Royal Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | Royal Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 20 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a portrait of Kate Cranston (1849–1934), the Glasgow tearooms entrepreneur, positioned to the right of centre against a purple and mauve guilloche underprint with a faint architectural vignette at centre. A large numeral '20' appears at upper right, while a vertical windowed security strip at left incorporates a holographic floral motif in violet with a colour-shifting denomination element below; Braille indicators are present at lower left and the Royal Bank of Scotland star-and-cross logo is printed at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries an intaglio-style vignette of two red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) perched on a tree branch, rendered in warm reddish-brown tones across the left and central portions against a soft purple and lilac guilloche ground with foliage and berry motifs at the borders. The denomination 'Twenty Pounds Sterling' is printed vertically at upper right alongside the windowed security strip, and a quoted verse in the central field is accompanied by a facsimile script attribution to the poet Mark Alexander Boyd. The Royal Bank of Scotland star-and-cross logo appears at upper left. |
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The Royal Bank of Scotland's polymer £20 entered circulation in February 2021, part of the broader UK-wide shift away from cotton-paper notes that began with the Bank of England's £5 in 2016. RBS was notably behind the curve on polymer adoption compared to Clydesdale and some English issuers, making this a relatively late conversion for a major Scottish bank.
De La Rue's involvement here is worth noting — the company had faced serious financial turbulence in 2019–2020, including the high-profile loss of the UK passport contract, and Scottish commercial bank work remained part of its stabilisation portfolio during that period.