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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, facing three-quarters right, with a stanza from his verse printed above to the right of the portrait. The bank title CLYDESDALE BANK PLC is inscribed across the top, with the denomination FIVE POUNDS STERLING in large letterpress at centre-right, flanked by guilloche underprint patterns and a ship vignette at lower right. Date and place of issue GLASGOW 21ST JULY 1995 appear below the Chief Executive's signature. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed naturalistic vignette occupies the central field, illustrating a harvest mouse perched on a wheat stalk amid foliage, referencing Burns' poem 'To a Mouse.' A large rose bloom, alluding to Burns' lyric 'A Red, Red Rose,' appears to the right, with an open rural landscape in the background. The denomination £5 is printed at upper left, and the Clydesdale Bank ship cartouche appears at lower left in orange. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Watermark |
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