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10 Pounds Northern Bank
| Issuer | Currency Commission Ireland |
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| Year | 1929 |
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| Size | 191 × 108 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in intaglio of a horse-drawn plough worked by a labourer in a rural field scene, with the denomination £10 rendered in ornate script at centre. Bilingual headings in Gothic lettering run across the top in English and Irish, with the issuing bank name THE NORTHERN BANK LIMITED in bold letterpress at lower centre beneath bilateral guilloche cornerpieces carrying the £10 denomination. Two manuscript signatures appear — one above the central vignette attributed to the Chairman of the Currency Commission, the other below the bank name — alongside a date and serial number in red. |
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| Obverse lettering | Currency Commission Consolidated Bank Note Coimisiún Airgid Reatha Nóta Bainc Có-Dhlúite Ten Pounds Deich bPuint Payable at the Principal Office in Dublin of Tá so iníoctha ag an bPríomh-Oifig i mBaile Átha Cliath de The Northern Bank Limited |
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The Currency Commission of Ireland was established under the Currency Act of 1927, tasked with issuing a unified consolidated banknote series to replace the competing notes of multiple Irish commercial banks. Rather than absorbing those banks' issuing rights outright, the Commission struck a pragmatic arrangement: participating banks — including Northern Bank — had their names printed alongside the Commission's authority, producing what collectors now call the "Ploughman" series after the agricultural vignette common to the type.
Northern Bank's participation was commercially significant given its predominantly Ulster-focused operations, and the 10 Pound denomination was the highest-value note most ordinary businesses would ever handle. Waterlow and Sons printed the series in London.