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1 Pound Allied Irish Banks
| Issuer | Allied Irish Banks Limited |
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| Year | 1982-1984 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of a young boy at right, rendered in intaglio against a fine green guilloche underprint, with a panel of four provincial county arms arranged in a row at the bottom centre. The bank's name appears in bold letterpress across the top, with the denomination vignette and promise-to-pay text set within an ornate central cartouche. The Allied Irish Banks trefoil logo appears at upper left alongside the alphanumeric serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette of the Spanish Armada galleas The Girona under full sail, set within an intricate lathe-work border of green guilloche. A Celtic knotwork column ornament occupies the left margin, while a cannon is positioned at lower right, both rendered as decorative period motifs. The denomination numeral '1' appears at upper left within a Celtic-framed panel, and the Allied Irish Banks trefoil device is repeated at upper right. |
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Allied Irish Banks was formed in 1966 through the merger of three institutions — the Royal Bank of Ireland, the Munster & Leinster Bank, and the Provincial Bank of Ireland — but the group did not issue its own banknotes until 1982, when it consolidated the separate note-issuing traditions of its constituent banks into a single unified series. This note is from that first series.
The £1 denomination was withdrawn from circulation in Ireland in 1988, making the issue window for this series relatively narrow. De La Rue printed for multiple Irish institutions simultaneously during this period, and the 1982 AIB contract was unremarkable technically — no known major varieties or error printings have been documented for Pick 1.