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50 Pounds Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Protection type | Polymer substrate, Hologram window, Braille |
| Protection description | Clear polymer window at left on obverse incorporating a holographic security image with a statue and geometric dot matrix patterns; raised Braille dots at lower left of obverse for tactile recognition. |
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Bank of Scotland's first polymer £50, introduced in 2020, marked the denomination's transition from cotton-linen paper after over three centuries of continuous note issue by the bank. De La Rue's Gateshead facility — not the Edinburgh plant historically associated with Scottish notes — handled production, using the same Guardian substrate deployed across the UK's recent polymer rollout.
The Braille tactile feature on this series was introduced partly in response to advocacy following the 2016 UK Access to Finance review, which found visually impaired users systematically disadvantaged by increasingly similar note sizes across denominations.