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5 Pounds Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank
| Issuer | Clydesdale & North of Scotland Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1951-1960 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1707-1970) |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in purple-violet tones and carries two intaglio architectural vignettes: King's College, Aberdeen at left and Glasgow Cathedral at right, flanking a central guilloche medallion with the denomination FIVE POUNDS in bold letterpress. The issuing place GLASGOW and date appear above the serial numbers, which are printed in black at either side. A manuscript signature of the General Manager appears at lower centre beneath the promise-to-pay legend. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in purple-violet and centres on a large circular vignette enclosing the bank's heraldic coat of arms, supported by figures and surmounted by a motto ribbon reading FIDE ET INDUSTRIA, with the Latin motto LITORE AD LITUS on a scroll beneath. The central roundel is set within elaborate guilloche lacework, with £5 numerals in bold at left and right. |
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The Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank was itself a product of a 1950 merger — Clydesdale Bank absorbing the North of Scotland Bank — so notes from this decade carry the combined title on what was still a transitional institution finding its administrative footing. The De La Rue printing contract was a long-standing arrangement, not unusual for Scottish commercial banks that lacked the in-house security infrastructure to produce their own notes.
Scottish £5 notes of this period circulated far more actively than their English counterparts, partly because the £5 denomination was far more common in everyday Scottish commerce before decimalization reshuffled the currency's practical hierarchy.