5 Pounds Clydesdale Bank - Bicentenary of Robert Burns' Death

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.