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5 Pounds North of Scotland and Town and County Bank
| Issuer | Town and County Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1707-1970) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio on blue guilloche underprint, with a panoramic vignette of Aberdeen above the central text panel and two smaller vignettes at left showing a neoclassical building and ornamental rosettes. Large blue letterpress FIVE fills the central denomination panel. Red overprint reads North of Scotland and Town & County Bank Limited diagonally across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | FIVE FIVE / TOWN AND COUNTY BANK LIMITED / Promise to Pay the Bearer on Demand Five Pounds Sterling at their Office here / ABERDEEN 6th April 1903 / By order of the Directors / MANAGER / SECRETARY / INCORPORATED 1862 / REGISTERED 1882 / ESTABLISHED 1825 / Perkins Bacon & Co LD London / North of Scotland and Town & County Bank Limited |
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The Town and County Bank Limited was absorbed into the Clydesdale Bank in 1908, making any note issued in the final years of its independent operation — like this 1903 example — part of a very short terminal run. The bank had itself been formed through a series of North of Scotland mergers stretching back to the 1820s, and the "North of Scotland and Town and County Bank" title reflects an intermediate merger name that the institution carried for only a portion of its history.
Perkins Bacon's steel-engraved intaglio work was standard for Scottish provincial banking of the period. The firm printed for dozens of colonial and domestic issuers simultaneously, and their Scottish commercial bank contracts were among their more stable long-term relationships.