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1 Pound Munster and Leinster 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 ploughman guiding a horse-drawn plough across a field, rendered in detailed intaglio engraving, with a large stylised £1 numeral as underprint at centre. The issuing bank title THE MUNSTER & LEINSTER BANK LIMITED appears in bold letterpress along the lower portion, with bilingual English and Irish text stating payability at the principal office in Dublin. Serial number and date appear at lower left and lower right respectively, with a facsimile signature of the Currency Commission Chairman across the upper centre. |
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| Reverse description | Finely engraved central vignette of the Custom House, Dublin, viewed from the River Liffey with a tall-masted sailing vessel moored at left, the neoclassical façade and dome rendered in precise intaglio detail. The vignette is framed within an elaborate guilloche border of interlocking lace-pattern scrollwork in dark green, with £1 denomination numerals in ornate Gothic script at left and right. A lavender guilloche underprint extends behind the entire composition. |
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| Variants | P#20a - 06.05.1929 - 05.03.1935 signatures: Brennan & Gubbins P#20b - 07.02.1936 - 06.02.1940 signatures: Brennan & Hosford |
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