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5 Pounds North of Scotland Bank
| Issuer | North of Scotland Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1928-1934 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | The left panel carries the bank's heraldic arms vignette, with the numeral '5' set in ornate cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners. A finely engraved vignette of Marischal College, Aberdeen, is positioned at the top centre within a rectangular frame, surrounded by intricate guilloche underprint in blue and green tones. The promise-to-pay text and denomination 'FIVE POUNDS' are rendered in letterpress script across the centre, with the place of issue 'ABERDEEN' and date printed below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse composition is centred on a large circular sunburst guilloche radiating outward from the bank's heraldic arms, enclosed within a decorative roundel bearing the statutory inscription. The denomination numeral '5' appears in ornate cartouches at each of the four corners, with the overall design executed in blue-green tones. A vertical guilloche panel with repeated lettering runs along the right margin. |
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The North of Scotland Bank Limited, headquartered in Aberdeen, was one of the smaller Scottish chartered banks that survived into the twentieth century largely through regional loyalty rather than scale. By the late 1920s it was already operating under pressure from the larger Edinburgh and Glasgow institutions, and it would ultimately be absorbed by Clydesdale Bank in 1950.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement is worth noting — the New Malden firm handled security printing for dozens of colonial and provincial issuers during this period, and their intaglio work on Scottish provincial notes tends to be technically superior to the notes' relative obscurity might suggest. The P#S640 series spans six years, and dating individual examples precisely requires examining the manuscript signatures, as the printed date range covers multiple cashier appointments.