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5 Pounds Clydesdale Bank - Bicentenary of Robert Burns' Death
| Issuer | Clydesdale Bank PLC |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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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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| Protection description | Embedded security thread running vertically through the note; the Clydesdale Bank ship emblem visible when held to light. |
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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.