2021-05-29 Sat

The Bank of Scotland issued a new polymer banknote of 50 pounds with a new ultraviolet feature and a change of color from green to red.

Similar to its predecessor, the obverse of the new banknote features the standard portrait of Scottish novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott and the headquarters of the Bank of Scotland, known as The Mound, in Edinburgh. The reverse has a view of a boat “bridge,” the world’s first and only rotating boat lift, the Falkirk Wheel.

In addition to the new note is an image of a pair of 300-ton horse’s heads representing mythological water spirits known as kelpies. They are included to recognize the contribution of horses to the history of Scotland. A new ultraviolet feature shows a horse pulling a canal barge, one of the ways the animals shaped the geographical layout of the Falkirk area. It also has parts of the poem “Steam Barge,” by William Muir.

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