Katalog
| Emittent | Royal Bank of Scotland |
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| Jahr | 1791 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | FIVE SHILLINGS The Royal Bank of Scotland promise to pay to Bearer on demand Five Shillings Sterling Edinburgh 3 April 1791 By Order of the Directors |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned cream-white laid paper with no vignette, text, or decorative elements, showing only the natural texture and fold lines of the period paper stock. |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Royal Bank of Scotland's five shilling denomination sat at an awkward commercial position — too small for serious mercantile transactions, too large for everyday working-class use in an economy still heavily reliant on coin. Scottish banks had long exploited the legal latitude north of the border to issue paper at denominations the Bank of England could not, and the five shilling note was a direct product of that freedom.
By 1791 the RBS was well established on St. Andrew Square, competing aggressively with the Bank of Scotland and the proliferating provincial banks. Notes of this denomination from this period rarely survived use — paper turnover was high, and redemption records suggest most were exchanged within weeks of issue.