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1 Guinea Bank of Ireland
| Emittent | Bank of Ireland |
|---|---|
| Jahr | 1803 |
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| Referenz(en) | P#7 |
| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | An oval letterpress vignette at upper left portrays Hibernia seated beneath a royal crown. The body of the note is executed in copperplate script, with the denomination ONE GUINEA rendered in bold blackletter type at lower left alongside the issuer name BANK of IRELAND in serif capitals. Handwritten serial numbers appear at upper left and right, with manuscript date and payee line completing the promissory text. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | 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 |
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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.