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5 Pounds Clydesdale Bank - Bicentenary of Robert Burns' Death
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank PLC |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Robert Burns at left, with an excerpt from one of his poems inscribed to the upper right of the portrait, flanked by floral motifs. The centre-right carries a large numeral '5' within an oval guilloche underprint, with the bank's name and promise-to-pay legend above. The date 'Glasgow, 21st July 1996' and the Chief Executive's facsimile signature appear at lower centre, with a ship vignette at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CLYDESDALE BANK PLC PROMISE TO PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT THEIR OFFICE HERE FIVE POUNDS STERLING BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHIEF EXECUTIVE GLASGOW, 21ST JULY 1996 |
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Clydesdale Bank's commemorative issues occupy an unusual legal position: Scottish banknotes are not legal tender even in Scotland, yet they circulate freely by custom and inter-bank agreement. This note was issued in 1996 to mark the bicentenary of Burns' death in 1796 — a date the bank had good commercial reason to observe, given that Burns spent much of his life in Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire, both firmly within Clydesdale's traditional territory.
The P#224D designation places it within a broader sequence of Burns-themed Clydesdale fives, several of which were produced in low runs and quickly absorbed by collectors rather than tills, making genuinely circulated examples the rarer find.