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20 Pounds Sterling
| Emittent | Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. |
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| Jahr | 1947-1958 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Blue-green intaglio-printed note with a central oval portrait vignette of a gentleman in early 19th-century dress, flanked by two classical allegorical female figures in a large scenic vignette across the upper register. A smaller circular vignette at lower left contains a profile portrait of a woman in neoclassical style, with ornamental guilloche work framing the denomination numerals at each corner. The issuer's name, denomination, and promise-to-pay text are printed in bold letterpress across the centre, with the date and city of issue, Edinburgh, printed below. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF SCOTLAND LTD PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWENTY POUNDS STERLING AT THE OFFICE HERE EDINBURGH BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS GENERAL MANAGER £20 |
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The Commercial Bank of Scotland had operated as an independent Edinburgh-based joint-stock bank since 1810, but this note series was issued during a period of mounting pressure toward consolidation in Scottish banking. The bank merged with the National Bank of Scotland in 1959, making this series among the last produced under the Commercial Bank name alone — the merger effectively ended independent note-issuing for both institutions within that combined entity.
At the £20 level, circulation was never heavy. These were commercial and interbank instruments more than retail currency, which means surviving examples often show either very light use or none at all — not because they were carefully preserved, but because they simply didn't pass through many hands.