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5 Pounds Royal Bank of Scotland - 2014 Ryder Cup, Gleneagles
| Issuer | Royal Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and multicolour note with a portrait vignette of Lord Ilay at right, rendered in intaglio against a guilloche underprint. At centre, the denomination FIVE POUNDS STERLING is printed in large letterpress text, flanked by the bank's name and a vignette of the Ryder Cup trophy at left with a security element below it. The bank's heraldic crest appears at lower centre, with the Chief Executive's facsimile signature beneath the central text block. |
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| Reverse description | The large central vignette presents the Ryder Cup trophy in full colour against a pale blue-green panoramic background of the Gleneagles hotel and golf course. A golfer figurine surmounts the trophy, and a flag pin is visible on the fairway at left; the Ryder Cup 2014 official logo appears at upper left alongside the Scotland designation. The denomination £5 is repeated in the lower corners, with the printer's imprint at lower centre. |
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RBS issued this commemorative polymer-hybrid note to mark the 2014 Ryder Cup held at Gleneagles in Perthshire — only the second time Scotland had hosted the event. Scottish chartered banks retain the legal right to issue their own sterling notes, a quirk of the Acts of Union that has never been fully harmonised with Bank of England practice, and commemorative runs like this one sit at the sharper end of that privilege.
Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig facility handled production. The hybrid substrate was still relatively novel for British-market notes at the time of issue, and collector uptake was high enough that circulated examples are genuinely uncommon.