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5 Pounds North of Scotland Bank
| Issuer | North of Scotland Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | The North of Scotland Bank Limited Promise to Pay the Bearer on Demand Five Pounds Sterling at their Office here Aberdeen By order of the Directors |
| Reverse description | Yellow-green ground with a blue intaglio design centred on the bank's circular heraldic seal, surrounded by a radiating sunburst guilloche and an outer legend band citing the relevant Acts of Parliament. The motto FIDE ET INDUSTRIA appears on a scroll beneath the shield within the seal. The £5 denomination counter is repeated six times around the field — once at top centre, once at bottom centre, and once in each corner — with a vertical guilloche panel along the right edge carrying the bank's name in letterpress. |
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The North of Scotland Bank Limited was absorbed into the Clydesdale Bank in 1950, ending a banking operation that had run since 1836 out of Aberdeen. By 1925 the bank's note-issuing was already a diminishing activity — Scottish banks retained the right to issue their own notes, but the smaller institutions were steadily losing ground to the larger Glasgow and Edinburgh houses.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement here is unremarkable in one sense — they printed for dozens of Scottish and colonial issuers — but their intaglio work on Scottish provincial notes of this period is consistently tighter than their contemporaries. The SC713 is scarce in any grade; survivor rates for North of Scotland issues are low relative to the Edinburgh banks.