Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Guinea Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
|---|---|
| Year | 1803 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | P#7 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | I Promise to pay to ... or bearer on Demand the Sum of One Pound two Shillings & nine Pence Dublin For the Gov.r and Comp.a of the Bank of Ireland |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, bearing no printed design, lettering, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The guinea denomination — 21 shillings rather than a round pound — was a commercial convention inherited from the gold guinea coin, which had ceased production in 1799. Bank of Ireland notes in this denomination were used primarily in professional and mercantile settlements, where pricing in guineas remained customary well into the nineteenth century. The denomination was phased out as decimal reckoning gradually displaced it.
1803 falls squarely within the post-Act of Union period, when the Bank of Ireland had just secured its position as the dominant note-issuing institution on the island following the 1800 merger of the Irish and British parliaments. Surviving examples from this early series are rare; bank note retention was poor in Ireland during this period, and institutional destruction of redeemed notes was thorough.