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10 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1923-1925 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds (10 Puint) |
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| Obverse description | Allegorical female figures of Hibernia appear as intaglio vignettes at the left and right margins, each posed beside a classical pedestal, framing a central blue guilloche medallion bearing a facing Medusa-head portrait flanked by the numeral 10. The issuing legend and promise-to-pay text are rendered in copperplate script across the lower portion, with the date and serial number in the upper field, above a single manuscript signature of the Chief Cashier. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is arranged in a tripartite composition with two lateral oval guilloche panels each bearing the numeral 10, flanking a central circular vignette with an allegorical figure, all contained within an elaborate lathe-work border. The inscription TEN POUNDS appears above the central panel, with the denomination numeral repeated within each lateral oval. |
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Bank of Ireland's early Free State-era notes occupied an odd constitutional position: issued by a private chartered bank, denominated in pounds sterling, and circulating in a jurisdiction that had just broken from British rule but had not yet established its own central bank. The Currency Act of 1927 eventually forced the Associated Banks — Bank of Ireland among them — to surrender note-issuing rights to the newly created Currency Commission, making this series among the last privately issued Irish banknotes before consolidation.
The 1923–1925 window is narrow, and higher denominations from this run were never heavily circulated by volume. Surviving examples of the £10 in any condition are genuinely uncommon.