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5 Pounds Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank
| Issuer | Clydesdale & North of Scotland Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1961-1963 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Clydesdale & North of Scotland Bank Limited Promise to pay the bearer at their office here on demand Five Pounds By order of the Board of Directors Glasgow Litore Ad Litus |
| Reverse description | A detailed intaglio vignette occupies the central field, presenting a panoramic view of King's College, Aberdeen, with its distinctive crown tower and Gothic chapel facade rendered in fine line engraving, set among bare winter trees. The numeral 5 appears in the upper right corner within a guilloche rosette. The bank's full title is inscribed in a decorative panel along the lower margin, framed by Celtic interlace ornamental borders. |
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The Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank name itself was a product of a 1950 merger between the Clydesdale Bank and the North of Scotland Bank, creating an institution with a geographically ambiguous identity that the Scottish public never quite warmed to — the "North of Scotland" branding was dropped in 1963 when the bank reverted to plain Clydesdale Bank Limited, which neatly brackets the issue window for this note.
De La Rue's involvement in Scottish commercial bank printing during this period was not unusual, but the timing places this note in the last years before Clydesdale's absorption into the Midland Bank orbit accelerated modernization of the series.