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Saor Alba

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  1. So there are, or was, the National Bank and Commercial Bank which merged the National Commercial Bank, and there is the Royal Bank. How many banks were there in Scotland and did they always produce their own designs?

     

     

    At the opening of the 20th century there were ten note issuing banks - Aberdeen Town and County and Caledonian were swallowed up by North of Scotland and Bank of Scotland early in the century which left eight. The next round of mergers began in the 1950s and on up through 1969 with the merger of British Linen into Bank of Scotland - which now leaves only three note issuing banks. British Linen continued as a savings bank up into the 1990s but has since been renamed. The banks always had their unique designs and continue to do so, but they do coordinate colour schemes with all of the other UK banks in Northern Ireland and England as well as Isle of Man and Guernsey and Jersey to afford some colour recognition.

  2. Very nice notes Saor Alba ... almost like you are collecting notes with animals on them :grin:

     

     

    A side theme of post-Civil War "evasion" notes - technically these issues were prohibited under the National Banking Act of 1863, but states and municipalities skirted the law until the 1896 Mississippi "warrants" - then the Secret Service finally put an end to all non-federal government bonded note issues ie anything other than Federally issued or National Bank issued paper money.

  3. This one I bought about a year ago, just never posted:

     

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    A very very rare post Civil War obsolete from the North, and from a National Bank in Meriden Connecticut, which at the same time was issuing National Banknotes in the $1 denomination. This note issue was likely in contravention of the prohibition of note issues without paying the 10% tax that eliminated all non-National bank note issues.

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