Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Pound Manx Bank
| Issuer | The Manx Bank, Branch of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank Limited |
|---|---|
| Year | 1906-1907 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Pound |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central oval vignette with an intaglio engraving of the Tower of Refuge set in Douglas Bay, surrounded by ornate guilloche borders with numeral "1" corner devices. The bank title appears in large bold lettering across the upper portion, with the promise-to-pay text and denomination ONE POUND flanking the central vignette; the place and date of issue are inscribed in script at lower left, with serial number repeated at lower right. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central triskele motif flanked by vignettes of notable Manx landmarks: Castle Rushen at left, Albert Tower at upper centre, the Laxey Wheel at lower centre, and Peel Castle at right, all set within an ornate guilloche border with repeated denomination lettering. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Manx Bank was a short-lived venture — the Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank acquired it and operated it briefly as a named branch before absorbing it entirely into the parent institution. Notes issued under this hybrid "Manx Bank, Branch of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank Limited" title therefore cover an extremely narrow window, making the 1906–1907 date range almost the entire lifespan of the imprint.
Waterlow & Sons printed the series from their London works, as they did for a considerable share of British provincial and colonial banking paper of the period. The Isle of Man's separate legislative status under the Crown meant local banks could issue their own notes independently of Bank of England controls — a privilege that mainland English banks, including the Lancashire & Yorkshire itself, had long since lost under the 1844 Bank Charter Act.