...Scotland, Bank of Scotland Limited - £20 Polymer Dated 2019 Normal Polymer Circulating Note

Alba / Scotland

Bank of Scotland Limited
(Established 17.07.1695, First bank to issue banknote in Scotland)

Currency : Pound Sterling (GBP)

This is the latest issue of a new £20 polymer note which was first announced on 07.11.2019, together with another £20 polymer commemorative note celebrating the Queensferry Crossing bridge which was opened to traffic in 2017. These two notes were released to the public on 27.02.2020. The theme for this new note is the "Bridge" series, which is the continuation of the current series, first issued in 2007.

Here I have only posted the normal polymer note issued.

Front
Portrait of Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (b. 1771-1832);
Bank of Scotland Headquarters on The Mound, a man-made slope is situated in central Edinburgh which connects Edinburgh’s New and Old Towns;
Bank of Scotland Crest;
Spark® denomination numeral "20";
Image of Four Thistles;
Holographic foil stripe featuring image of ‘Fame’ below the pediment of the Mound with a thistle motif in the background;
Bank of Scotland name and logo.

The design on the front is unlike the previous two polymer notes issued. Unlike those earlier polymer notes issued, this £20 is printed with the holographic depth stripe.

Back
Vignette of the famous Forth Bridges and wording ‘Forth Bridge’;
Lyrics from the traditional ballad ‘Far Over the Forth’;
Bank of Scotland Headquarters on The Mound;
A Thistle;
Holographic foil stripe featuring an image of ‘Fame’ below the pediment of the mound, with a thistle motif in the background;
Bank of Scotland name and logo.

The Queensferry Crossing bridge is also visible in the background. The distinctive red Forth Bridge, a cantilever railway bridge crossing the Firth of Forth which is located nine miles west of the city of Edinburgh. The construction for The Forth Bridge was started in 1882 and completed in 1889 and is one of the many famous man made landmarks in Scotland. This bridge is for rail traffic only. The Forth Bridge has a length of 8,094 feet and double tracks elevated to 150 feet above the water level at high tide. This bridge was designed by the English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. The Forth bridge was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 2015.

This note is printed with see-through tiny windows or an anti-counterfeit “window effect” on The Mound and a holographic depth stripe at the top of the foil, showing a “Northern Lights effect” when the note is tilted.

There are three bridges built across the Firth of Forth linking between Edinburgh, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry. The distance between these bridges is about 1 to 1.5 miles. These bridges are Queensferry Crossing bridge (2017), Forth Road bridge (1964) and Forth bridge (1889).

This note is printed with the date 1st June 2019.

Governor - Antonio Mota de Sousa Horta-Osorio
Treasurer - Philip Grant
Imprinter - De La Rue
Dimensions - 139mm x 73mm

Twenty Pounds

Dated 2019, Sir Walter Scott, Bank of Scotland Headquarters on The Mound

Reverse - Vignette of the famous Forth Bridges, Bank of Scotland Headquarters on The Mound