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5 Pounds Clydesdale Bank
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank |
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| Year | 1922-1946 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | The Clydesdale Bank Limited Promise to pay to the Bearer on Demand Five Pounds Sterling At their Office here By order of the Directors Glasgow |
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| Reverse lettering | The Clydesdale Bank Limited |
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Clydesdale Bank's interwar £5 series covered an unusually long print run — over two decades — during which Scotland's commercial banking system retained its note-issuing rights while English banks had long since ceded that function to the Bank of England. Clydesdale was by this period majority-owned by the Midland Bank, a detail that complicated the political optics of its continued independent issuance without ever legally threatening it.
The series bridges the Depression years and the Second World War, meaning notes dated in the early 1940s circulated under wartime paper controls that affected stock quality noticeably across Scottish issues of the period.