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£20 note, issued from London in 1934. Twenty pound notes were introduced by the Bank of England for the first time in 1725. The earliest notes were handwritten, and were issued to individuals as needed. These notes were written on one side only and bore the name of the payee, the date, and the signature of the issuing cashier.
The Series B note was replaced in turn on 21 February 1963 by the Series C £5 note which for the first time introduced the portrait of the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, to the £5 note (the Queen's portrait having first appeared on the Series C ten shilling and £1 notes issued in 1960). The Series C £5 note was withdrawn on 31 August 1973.
The £20 note is currently the third largest denomination of banknote issued by The Royal Bank of Scotland. [3] The Ilay series of banknotes was first issued in 1987. [4] These banknotes feature a portrait of Lord Ilay, first governor of the bank, on the front. Lord Ilay's image is also used as a watermark on the notes.
[20] [21] The public were encouraged to spend or exchange non-polymer five and ten pound notes before 1 March 2018 and twenty and fifty pound notes before 30 September 2022. [ 7 ] The polymer notes continue the theme of the World Heritage Series of paper banknotes, introduced in autumn 2009.
Having made the decision to switch to polymer banknotes, the first note of Series G, the polymer £5 note, entered circulation on 13 September 2016; [72] the £10 note on 14 September 2017; [10] [73] the £20 note on 20 February 2020; [58] and the £50 on 23 June 2021. [74] The material used to make the banknotes is biaxially oriented ...
The Bank of Scotland £20 note is a sterling banknote. It is the third largest of five banknote denominations issued by the Bank of Scotland . The current polymer note , first issued in 2020, bears the image of Walter Scott on the obverse and a vignette of the Forth Bridge on the reverse.
The £20 note is currently the second smallest denomination of banknote issued by Danske Bank. [6] The current £20 note featuring an image of engineer and inventor Harry Ferguson was first introduced in 2013, and is unchanged in design compared to the previous issue, except that the note bears the name Danske Bank, rather than Northern Bank. [7]
The Clydesdale Bank £20 note is a sterling banknote. It is the third largest denomination of banknote issued by Clydesdale Bank . The current polymer note , first issued in 2020, bears a portrait of the Scottish king Robert the Bruce on the obverse and an image of the islands of St Kilda on the reverse.