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5 Pounds Sterling
| Issuer | North of Scotland & Town & County Bank |
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| Year | 1909-1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue and grey note with a central vignette of a Gothic institutional building flanked on either side by the denomination numeral £5 in large ornate cartouches. The bank title 'The North of Scotland & Town & County Bank Limited' appears in bold script across the upper half, above the promise-to-pay text and denomination in letterpress. The lower portion carries the place of issue 'Aberdeen' with a manuscript date, serial number, and two manuscript signatures with printed role titles, all set against a fine guilloche underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND & TOWN & COUNTY BANK LIMITED Promise to pay to the Bearer on Demand FIVE POUNDS Sterling at their Office here. ABERDEEN By order of the Directors. |
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The North of Scotland & Town & County Bank was itself the product of a merger — the North of Scotland Bank absorbed the Town and County Bank in 1908, just a year before this series began. These notes were printed locally in Aberdeen rather than contracted to one of the London security printers, which was the common practice for smaller Scottish provincials. That decision kept production costs in-house but resulted in a somewhat more austere product than contemporaries issued by, say, the British Linen Bank.
The bank was absorbed by Clydesdale Bank in 1950, ending over a century of independent Aberdeen-based note issue.