10 Pounds Bank of Ireland

Bank of Ireland £10 notes of this period occupy an awkward position in Irish banking history. The bank continued issuing its own notes as a private chartered institution well into the twentieth century, but by the 1910s its currency was already circulating alongside a tangle of other Irish provincial bank issues, all technically legal but none backed by a central authority. The 1914–18 war years brought unusual demand pressure on higher denominations as hoarding increased and public confidence in smaller notes fluctuated.

Pick 79 is genuinely scarce. The £10 face value meant limited everyday circulation, and surviving examples that passed through normal commercial use are rare — most known specimens show either minimal handling or significant damage, rarely anything in between.