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1 Pound Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
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| Value | 1 Pound (1 Punt) |
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| Obverse description | Two intaglio-engraved vignettes of Hibernia, seated and draped in classical robes with a small child figure at her feet and a pedestal inscribed "BONA FIDES REPUBLICA STABILITAS", appear at the left and right margins. A frieze of repeated female portrait heads runs across the upper border, above the central text panel rendered in copperplate script. Oval guilloche underprint cartouches bearing the legend "ONE POUND" in letterpress appear at the lower left and right corners, flanking a central wavy-line guilloche band, with the place name "Dublin" and the date printed in red. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of Ireland I Promise to pay the bearer on Demand One Pound Dublin For the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland |
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Bank of Ireland's 1 Pound notes from this narrow window fall squarely in the turbulent final phase of the Irish War of Independence. The bank continued operating as a going concern under British authority while the political situation around it collapsed — a peculiar institutional normalcy maintained through boycotts, ambushes, and the burning of Custom House in May 1921.
Notes from 1920–21 are occasionally found with pinholes consistent with ledger filing, which was standard banking housekeeping at the time rather than damage in any meaningful sense.