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1 Pound Ulster Bank
| Issuer | Ulster Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of fields at lower left and Giant's Causeway at lower right, with a central text panel carrying the bank's promise to pay inscription. The word 'Belfast' appears at the bottom centre, identifying the head office. The design is executed in intaglio with fine guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse description | The bank's heraldic arms, supported by two stag figures and bearing the motto 'NIHIL IMPOSSIBILE ERIT VOBIS' on a scroll below, are centred against a light purple and pink guilloche background with large stylised pound sterling symbols flanking the central vignette. Provincial arms appear in each corner, framed by a Celtic knotwork border running the full perimeter of the note. The issuer's name is set in bold serif lettering across the top. |
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Ulster Bank Limited was a Belfast-headquartered commercial bank operating under a note-issuing privilege that persisted long after the partition of Ireland — one of the handful of authorised private issuers still circulating sterling-denominated notes in Northern Ireland under the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1928. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility in Surrey, produced notes for numerous colonial and Commonwealth issuers throughout the postwar decades, and their intaglio work for Ulster Bank maintains the restrained, formal quality consistent with their British commercial banking commissions of the period.
The watermark remains the sole listed security feature, modest even by 1966 standards, when other issuers were beginning to incorporate threads.