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10 Pounds Munster and Leinster Bank
| Issuer | Currency Commission Ireland |
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| Year | 1929-1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Signature(s) | 06.05.1929, 02.10.1931 & 05.12.1931 - Brennan & Gubbins 07.03.1938 & 04.08.1939 - Brennan & Hosford |
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| Protection description | a horse's head visible when held to light, consistent with the Currency Commission consolidated banknote series. |
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The Consolidated Banknotes series, of which this is a part, was a peculiar constitutional compromise. Rather than immediately nationalizing the surviving Irish commercial banks' note-issuing rights, the Currency Commission — established under the Currency Act of 1927 — required those banks to pool their issues under a single guaranteed instrument. The Munster and Leinster Bank was one of six institutions folded into the arrangement, retaining its name on notes it no longer fully controlled.
Joseph Brennan served as Currency Commission chairman across the entire date range of this note; the change from Gubbins to Hosford in the second signatory reflects internal administrative succession, not any policy shift. The series was discontinued when the Central Bank of Ireland Act 1942 dissolved the Commission entirely.