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1 Pound Northern Banking Company
| Issuer | Northern Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1908-1916 |
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| Value | 1 Pound (1 Punt) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries a central vignette of a sailing ship, flanked by the branch designations BELFAST and DUBLIN, with the founding date ESTABLISHED 1824 inscribed above. The denomination ONE POUND appears in large bold letterpress text across the centre, overlaid with guilloche scrollwork, while red serial numbers are printed to either side. The bottom margin bears a continuous letterpress listing of branch towns served by the bank. |
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| Obverse lettering | Northern Banking Company Limited Established 1824 Promise to pay the bearer on demand at the Bank or any of its Branches ONE POUND BRITISH value received Belfast For the Northern Banking Company Limited |
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The Northern Banking Company Limited was one of the six Ulster-based joint-stock banks still issuing their own notes in the early twentieth century, operating under the terms that allowed Irish provincial banks to continue circulation privileges long after similar rights had been extinguished in Britain. The company was absorbed into the Midland Bank-aligned Northern Bank in 1924, ending its note-issuing history entirely.
This series bridges the pre-war and wartime periods without any design change between them — a deliberate conservatism that makes precise dating within the 1908–1916 window dependent entirely on signatures and branch endorsements rather than printed date.