10 Pounds Ulster Bank

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.