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10 Pounds National 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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| Obverse description | Central vignette in blue intaglio of a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough across a tilled field, with two heavy draught horses at left and a rural landscape in the background. A large ornate £10 denomination numeral in guilloche underprint occupies the centre, flanked by the date and serial number at lower left and right. Bilingual legends in English and Irish run along the top border, with the issuing bank name in bold letterpress at the bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a neoclassical building facade — the former Parliament House on College Green, Dublin — framed within an oval cartouche and surrounded by an elaborate guilloche border with acanthus scroll ornamentation. The denomination £10 appears in large stylised numerals at both left and right within the guilloche surround, rendered in deep blue on a pale ground. |
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The Currency Commission was established under the Currency Act of 1927 to manage the Irish Free State's currency following independence, with the pound pegged at exact parity to sterling — a decision that would hold, without serious challenge, until 1979. These Ploughman notes, as the series became universally known, were printed by De La Rue in London throughout the run, a pragmatic arrangement that sat uneasily with the nationalist politics of the period but reflected the limited domestic printing infrastructure available at the time.
The £10 denomination was a high-value instrument by the standards of the 1930s Irish economy, and surviving circulated examples are correspondingly uncommon. The series was withdrawn following the Currency Commission's absorption into the newly established Central Bank of Ireland in 1943.