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| 表面の説明 | The obverse is printed in black intaglio on white paper, centred on a vignette of a grand Scottish baronial building flanked by two allegorical female figures — one to the left associated with agriculture and abundance, the other to the right with commerce and maritime trade. The denomination "FIVE POUNDS" appears in a large decorative panel at centre, with the bank title "THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND BANKING COMPANY" in bold letterpress across the upper portion. The note is dated 31st October 1866 at Aberdeen, with guilloche border ornamentation and corner pieces repeating the word "FIVE" in mirror script. |
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| 裏面の説明 | No reverse image available; the reverse of Scottish provincial banknotes of this period typically carried plain or lightly printed paper with minimal design. |
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The North of Scotland Banking Company, headquartered in Aberdeen, was one of the few Scottish provincial banks to maintain genuine independence well into the Victorian period — it survived until its 1908 absorption into the Clydesdale Bank. Notes from this institution circulated primarily across Aberdeenshire and the northeastern counties, a region economically distinct from the Glasgow and Edinburgh banking centers that dominated Scottish finance.
Scottish banks retained the legal right to issue their own notes under the Bank Notes (Scotland) Act 1765, a privilege that English provincial banks had largely lost. By 1866, the higher denominations like this five-pound note would have been instruments of commercial trade rather than everyday exchange — the working population rarely handled anything above a pound.
Cotton paper at this date was vulnerable to fold-line weakness at the cross-center, a known issue with heavy-denomination Scottish provincials of the 1860s.