Catalog
10 Pounds Ulster Bank
| Issuer | Ulster Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1908-1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette showing a farm building and plough in the foreground with a sailing ship behind. Lists of bank branches are printed at the left and right margins. The note bears a handwritten signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ulster Bank Limited I Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand Ten Pounds Sterling at the Bank in Belfast or at any of the Branches Belfast Dublin |
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Ulster Bank Limited operated as a private issuing bank under the terms that allowed Irish joint-stock banks to continue note issue well into the twentieth century — a privilege not extinguished until the Currency Act of 1927 reorganized the Free State's monetary arrangements, and even later in the North. This particular series predates partition entirely, issued from a Belfast-headquartered institution with branches across both what would become separate jurisdictions.
The decade-long date range reflects hand-dating practice common to Irish private bank issues of the period: a printed base note completed with manuscript date at the time of issue. Notes from the later end of the range — 1915 to 1917 — circulated through wartime conditions that were hard on paper currency.