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10 Pounds Northern Bank
| Issuer | Northern Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1970-1988 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Two intaglio vignettes flank the central text panel: at left, a pastoral scene with cattle grazing before a hillside landscape; at right, a loom in operation within an industrial interior, representing the Ulster linen industry. The lower centre carries a detailed vignette of the Harland & Wolff shipyard gantries and dry docks. The denomination "Ten Pounds" is set in large letterpress script over a fine multicolour guilloche underprint, with the bank title, establishment date, and promise-to-pay legend above, and a manuscript signature with printed date below. |
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| Variants | P#189a - 01.07.1970 signature: Wilson P#189b - 01.10.1971 signature: Gabbey P#189c - 01.01.1975, 01.01.1976 & 01.01.1978 signature: Newland P#189d - 01.03.1981 & 01.04.1982 signature: Ervin P#189e - 02.01.1985, 03.02.1986 & 02.03.1987 signature: Roberts P#189f - 15.06.1988 signature: Torrens |
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Northern Bank's £10 ran through six chief executives across eighteen years, and the signature sequence is genuinely useful for dating individual examples — the progression from Wilson through to Torrens maps neatly onto the bank's shifting ownership structure as it passed from Midland Bank control toward acquisition by National Australia Bank, completed in 1987.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the series from their New Malden plant, which closed permanently when the firm was absorbed into De La Rue in 1990. The 15 June 1988 Torrens date is the final issue, making it the shortest-run signature in the sequence by a considerable margin.