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50 Pounds Bank of Scotland
| Issuer | Bank of Scotland |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Printer | De La Rue Currency, Gateshead |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Sir Walter Scott at right, with a hologram security window at left incorporating a statue vignette and geometric patterns. A thistle underprint overlays a central vignette of the Bank of Scotland's head office building on the Mound, Edinburgh. Braille recognition dots appear at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The Falkirk Wheel, the world's only rotating boat lift, is rendered in a large central vignette at left, with its distinctive caisson arm structure shown in detail against a soft multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '50' appears at upper right alongside vertical lettering, with 'Falkirk Wheel' inscribed in white at lower left. Passages of text in a script typeface form part of the decorative background. |
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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.