Museum on the Mound

This guide to the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh, inside the Bank of Scotland's head office, opens with French prisoners of war at a Napoleonic-era camp near Penicuik carving stamps from mutton bones to forge the bank's notes. You'll hear how the counterfeit bills began turning up in Edinburgh's shops and taverns, and how the bank's own note takers were trained to catch them by touch and sight. The bank printed reward notices in French and English, offering a hundred pounds for information.