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5 Pounds Royal Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | Royal Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 1982-1986 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print on a fine guilloche underprint. The bank's arms — a crowned stag supporter flanking a shield with the motto FIRM — appear as a vignette at right, while the large denomination numeral and central circular guilloche panel dominate the face. The issuer's title runs along the top, with the promise-to-pay text and Edinburgh head office address inscribed in the centre, and the Managing Director's signature positioned below. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed the Royal Bank of Scotland's notes from their New Malden facility for decades, and this series reflects the tail end of that relationship — BWC was acquired by American Banknote Corporation in 1990, effectively ending over a century of independent operation. The transition between Chief Cashiers visible across this run, Winter giving way to Maiden, is a useful dating tool; the removal of sorting marks between the 1983 and 1984 Winter dates marks a quiet administrative change in how returned notes were processed and tracked.