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10 Pounds Belfast Banking Company
| Issuer | Belfast Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1903-1905 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and comprises four large circular guilloche rosettes positioned at each corner of the note. At centre, a rectangular panel with ornamental scrollwork frames the bank name, with the denomination 'TEN' repeated above and below within decorative cartouches. |
| Reverse lettering | Ten Belfast Banking Company Limited Ten |
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The Belfast Banking Company Limited was one of the older Ulster joint-stock banks, founded in 1827 and eventually absorbed into the Midland Bank group in 1917. By the time this note was issued, the bank was operating in a competitive northern Irish market alongside the Northern, the Provincial, and the Ulster banks — each maintaining their own note issue, a practice that persisted in Ireland long after it had been largely consolidated elsewhere in the British Isles.
Charles Skipper & East were responsible for a substantial portion of Irish private bank printing in this period. The London provenance of the plates occasionally surprises collectors who assume provincial Irish issues were produced locally.