5 Pounds - Royal Bank of Scotland
Obverse: © smithymx67
Reverse: © smithymx67
Description
This was a standard circulation banknote for Scotland.
Key Details
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GBR)
Sub Category
Scotland
Issuer
Royal Bank of Scotland
Currency
Pound Sterling (decimalized)
GBP - £
1971 - to date
Type
Standard
Year
ND
Shape
Rectangle
Width
65 mm
Height
125 mm
Face Value
5 Pounds (5 GBP)
Composition
Polymer
Obverse (top)
Obverse Description
Nan Shepherd with a poem in the centre
Obverse Lettering
£5
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
promises to pay the bearer on demand
Five Pounds Sterling
at its Head Office here in Edinburgh
by order of the Board 11th February 2016
Ross McEwan
Chief Executive Officer
But the struggle between frost
and the force in running water is not quickly over.
The battle fluctuates, and at the point of fluctuation
between the motion in water and the immobility of frost,
strange and beautiful forms are evolved.
It's a grand thing to get leave to life
Nan Shepherd
1893 - 1981
Royal Bank of Scotland
Reverse (bottom)
Reverse Description
Two mackerel fish
Reverse Lettering
Royal Bank of Scotland
Five Pounds Sterling
£5
Issues
Year
ND
Comments
Ross McEwan signature