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5 Pounds Commercial Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | Commercial Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 1909-1923 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries an architectural vignette of the Commercial Bank of Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters façade, flanked by building vignettes at both left and right margins. The face bears the bank's full promise-to-pay text in letterpress within a decorative border. |
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| Obverse lettering | The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited Promise to pay the bearer on demand Five Pounds Sterling At the office here Edinburgh By order of the Court of Directors |
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The Commercial Bank of Scotland was one of the major Edinburgh-based joint-stock banks established in the early nineteenth century, and by the Edwardian period its notes were well embedded in everyday Scottish commerce. Bradbury Wilkinson, the London security printer responsible for this series, held contracts with numerous Scottish banks simultaneously — their Scots banknote work during this period is technically accomplished but rarely distinguishable from one institution to the next at the production level.
Scottish banks retained their right to issue their own notes under the Bank Notes (Scotland) Act of 1845, which fixed each bank's authorized circulation. The Commercial Bank merged with the National Bank of Scotland in 1959, ending its independent note-issuing history entirely.