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1 Pound Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1910-1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Classical allegorical vignettes of Hibernia stand at both the left and right margins, rendered in intaglio with fine engraved detail. The central field carries the promise-to-pay text in letterpress, with the denomination ONE POUND in bold red script, surmounted by a decorative row of portrait medallions along the upper border. Below the central text, a list of branch offices is set in five lines of small type, flanked at the lower corners by oval guilloche panels bearing the word ONE. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain paper surface with no vignettes, text, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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The Bank of Ireland's pre-independence pound notes occupied an awkward position in Irish monetary life — issued by a private chartered institution that held quasi-central bank status under British rule, yet increasingly resented as a symbol of the financial establishment. This series ran through the entire stretch of the 1916 Rising and the subsequent political upheaval, meaning notes from the later end of the date range circulated during one of the most volatile periods in modern Irish history.
Pick 74 is among the last issues before wartime disruption and the approaching independence crisis forced substantive changes to Irish note design and issuing arrangements.