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10 Pounds Hibernian Bank
| Issuer | Currency Commission Ireland |
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| Year | 1929-1939 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds (10 Puint) |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette rendered in fine intaglio engraving showing the neoclassical façade of the Currency Commission building in Dublin, with Ionic columns, an arched entrance portico, and a sculptural group atop the pediment, framed by an elaborate guilloche border. Denomination counters '£10' in bold gothic script appear at the left and right within ornate lathe-work cartouches. The entire composition is executed in blue on a pale underprint, with no lettering on the reverse. |
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| Variants | P#16a - 06.05.1929 & 05.12.1931 signatures: Brennan & Campbell P#16b - 24.07.1939 signatures: Brennan & Hodges |
| Comments |
The Currency Commission consolidated note series — of which this is the Hibernian Bank panel — was a politically awkward solution. Rather than issuing a unified national currency outright, the Irish Free State allowed six associated banks to co-issue notes under Commission authority, each bearing its own name alongside the Commission's imprimatur. The Hibernian Bank had itself been absorbed into the National Bank of Ireland by 1958, but that consolidation was still decades away when these notes circulated.
The ten-pound denomination saw limited everyday use — purchasing power kept it largely in commercial and business hands. De La Rue produced the series to a high security standard, with the watermark being the primary anti-counterfeiting measure at a time when Ireland's new currency infrastructure was still establishing credibility.