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10 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1962-1976 |
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| Reference(s) | P#66 |
| Obverse description | Lady Hazel Lavery is portrayed in an intaglio-engraved oval vignette at left, seated with a traditional Irish harp and a landscape of mountains and water in the background. The bilingual bank title in English and Irish Gaelic is set across the upper portion, flanked by Celtic interlace border ornaments, with two facsimile signatures — the Governor and the Secretary of the Department of Finance — appearing to the right of the vignette. A guilloche medallion bearing the denomination £10 is positioned at lower centre-right, with the date printed in red below it. |
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| Variants | P#66a - 02.05.1962 - 16.07.1968 / 29.05.1962 signatures: O'Muimhneacháin & Whitaker P#66b - 05.05.1969 & 09.03.1970 signatures: Whitaker & Murray P#66c - 19.05.1971 - 10.02.1975 / 24.05.1973 signatures: Whitaker & Murray with security thread P#66d - 02.12.1976 signatures: Murray & O'Murchu |
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The "Lady Lavery" series — of which this is the high-denomination note — ran longer than any comparable European issue of its type, a product of political inertia rather than design satisfaction. The portrait of Hazel Lavery as Éire had been on Irish notes since the Currency Commission era of the 1920s, chosen partly because her husband Sir John Lavery had donated the design, and the Free State got a national symbol at no cost.
The addition of a security thread partway through the series, visible in dates from 1971 onward, creates a meaningful collecting distinction within P#66 — thread and non-thread examples carry different scarcity profiles, particularly at the top end of the circulated grade range.