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Commercial Bank of Scotland, design for £20 note
In the nineteenth century, Scottish notes were more likely t…
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Gold unicorn of James III, king of Scotland
It was only in the last decade of the fourteenth century tha…
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Alexander Runciman, Lochleven Castle on an Islet, a chalk drawing
Alexander Runciman (1736-85) and his brother John (1744-68),…
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David Allan, Two Men on a Seat, a pencil and black chalk drawing
As a boy, Allan (1744-1796) was expelled from school for car…
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Dundee Union Bank, £1 note
At the top of this note the three figures of Britannia, Hibe…
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Ian Hamilton Finlay and Nicholas Sloan, Terror.Virtue, a cast bronze medal
Ian Hamilton Finlay (born 1925) is one of several leading Br…
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Silver ryal of Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland, and Darnley
Only a few specimens of this coin of Mary Stuart are known. …
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The Burghead Bull
This carved slab is one of six similar stones found together…
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1 guinea note, Royal Bank of Scotland
In 1777 the Royal Bank of Scotland introduced this note, pri…
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£5 note of the Union Bank of Scotland
This powerful scene evokes the traditional heavy industry of…
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Bronze seal-die of Inchaffray Abbey
This double sided seal-die was used by the Abbey of St John …
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Disc-headed pin
This huge silver pin would have been used on an outer garmen…
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Brass torc
This type of torc or neck ring is very different to those fo…
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Bronze bowl
This bowl was found in a peat bog near Cumlangan Castle in s…
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The Tarves Hoard
This hoard was found on Ythsie Farm, Tarves, and originally …
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Three carved stone balls
Over four hundred stone balls like this have been found, nea…
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Sir David Wilkie, Nude Woman on a Ladder, a black and red chalk drawing with watercolour
Wilkie (1785-1841) began his artistic training in 1799 at th…
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Massive bronze armlets
This is a pair of massive objects which a person would have …
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Mantelpiece clock, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
The Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)…
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Massive brass armlet
This is one of a pair of massive armlets, similar to those f…
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Silver penny of David I of Scotland
Ironically, the earliest Scottish coins were struck in Engla…
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Spanish 8 reales silver coin countermarked as 5 shillings
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Struck silver military award for the Battle of Dunbar by Thomas Simon
This medal, made in gold and silver, was given to the office…
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Delftware punch bowl with a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender
Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' (1720-…
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The Lewis Chessmen
They were found in the vicinity of Uig on the Isle of Lewis …
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Christopher Ironside, designs for the United Kingdom two pence coin
These drawings are the work of Christopher Ironside, designe…
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Christopher Ironside, four sets of designs for United Kingdom decimal coins
These drawings are Christopher Ironside’s designs for the Un…
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Christopher Ironside, plaster model and sketch of a design for the United Kingdom five pence coin
For hundreds of years, the coinage of the UK had been based …
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Bimetallic £2 coin
The first British coin made of two different coloured metals…
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Equitable Labour Exchange note worth 10 hours work
This unusual note was issued as part of a scheme set up by R…
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Penny defaced by suffragettes
In 1896, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (N…
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£5 note of the Scarborough Bank, York City and County Banking Company
This note is dominated by an imposing view of York Minster e…
