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10 Pounds Danske Bank
| Issuer | Danske Bank (Northern Ireland) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of John Boyd Dunlop at right, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint in shades of green and teal. To the lower left, a secondary vignette shows a period cyclist on a bicycle, referencing Dunlop's invention of the pneumatic tyre. The Danske Bank logotype appears at upper centre, with the denomination and issue date inscribed in script lettering across the centre field. |
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| Protection description | Clear transparent window integrated into the polymer substrate at the right side of both faces, containing a repeating microprint pattern; microtext incorporated within the window security element reading DB10 in repeat. |
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Danske Bank is a Danish institution — its Northern Ireland operation descends from Northern Bank, which it acquired in 2005 and rebranded in 2012. That ownership chain matters here because Northern Ireland's unusual banking arrangement, a holdover from before the Bank of England assumed monopoly control elsewhere in the UK, permits three commercial banks to issue their own sterling notes, legal tender obligations backed pound-for-pound by Bank of England reserves.
The 2017 polymer issue was Northern Ireland's first from Danske Bank on the new substrate. Polymer adoption came later to Northern Ireland's commercial issuers than to the Bank of England, whose own polymer £5 had launched the previous year.