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5 Pounds British Linen Company

Emittent British Linen Company
Jahr 1780
Typ Standard circulation banknote
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Engraved oval vignette at upper left, containing a seated female figure with a sailing ship in the background, enclosed within a decorative floral and foliate border running the full height of the left margin. The place of issue "Edinburgh" and date "1st Augt 1780" appear at upper centre in ornate script, alongside the denomination "£5" at upper right. The body of the note carries the promise-to-pay text in copperplate script, with "FIVE POUNDS" set in bold letterpress, and two manuscript authorisation lines at lower centre bearing the signatures of the Sub-Manager and Accountant.
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Rückseitenbeschreibung Unprinted verso bearing extensive manuscript endorsements and annotations in ink, consistent with the note having passed through multiple hands during circulation; several partial ink stamps are also visible. The reverse carries handwritten notations including dates, names, and what appear to be declarations or transfer records, characteristic of Scottish banknote practice of the period.
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The British Linen Company was chartered in 1746 primarily to develop Scotland's linen trade, not as a bank — yet by the 1770s banking had become its dominant business, making it one of the more unusual institutional pivots in Scottish financial history. Its note-issuing activity placed it in direct competition with the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank at a time when Scottish private banking was extraordinarily active and largely unregulated by English standards.

A 1780 example predates the company's formal reconstitution as the British Linen Bank by well over a century. Survival rates for Scottish provincial paper of this period are low — most notes were redeemed and pulped as a matter of routine housekeeping.

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