NATIONAL BANK OF SCOTLAND

Nowadays, there are only 3 Scottish banks but in the past there have been many more. The local issuing banks of the past are quite hard to come by and therefor fairly expensive. So my collection includes 8 of the major ones. i’ll give you a short history of each one and usually a link where you can see more for yourself.

First up is The National Bank Of Scotland. The scan above is a one pound (£1) note from March 1957 and the previous post has a scan of the five pound note (£5) (september 1948), which is one of the biggest notes I have in my collection (Tibet and Russia come to mind as big notes too), it is 8 1/4 inches X 5 inches ( 210 mm X 128 mm)

The National Bank of Scotland Ltd. was a Scottish commercial bank. It was founded in 1825, and obtained a royal charter in 1831. It became the first Scottish bank to open a London office, in 1864. In 1918 the bank was bought by Lloyds Bank, although it continued to operate as an independent institution until 1959, when it merged with the Commercial Bank of Scotland to become the National Commercial Bank of Scotland. Ten years later the National Commercial Bank merged with the Royal Bank of Scotland. 

( wikipedia – more here)

we’ll come across some of the other banks listed above in the next few posts.