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1 Pound Hibernian Bank
| Issuer | Currency Commission Ireland |
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| Year | 1929-1940 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a horse-drawn plough set against a pastoral Irish landscape, rendered in intaglio. The note carries bilingual text in English and Irish (Gaelic) identifying the Currency Commission and the issuing bank, the Hibernian Bank Limited, with the denomination stated as One Pound / Punt. Guilloche underprint patterns frame the central design. |
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| Obverse lettering | Currency Commission Consolidated Bank Note Coimisiún Airgid Reatha Nóta Bainc Có-Dhlúite One Pound Punt Payable at the Principle Office in Dublin of Tá so iníoctha ag an bPríomh-Oifig i mBaile Átha Cliath de The Hibernian Bank Limited |
| Reverse description | Intaglio vignette of the Custom House, Dublin, viewed from across the River Liffey with a tall-masted sailing vessel moored to the left; the neoclassical façade with its central dome is rendered in fine line engraving against a clouded sky. The central panel is enclosed within an ornate scrollwork and acanthus-leaf border in dark green. Sterling denomination counters bearing the £1 symbol appear at left and right within elaborate guilloche cartouches, with a purple-tinted fine-line underprint extending to the margins. |
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