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10 Pounds Ulster Bank
| Issuer | Ulster Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1939-1948 |
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| Value | 10 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | Ulster Bank Limited Northern Ireland Issue BELFAST I promise to pay the Bearer on Demand TEN POUNDS Sterling at the Head Office of the Bank in Belfast for the ULSTER BANK LIMITED Belfast |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red, the reverse is dominated by a detailed intaglio vignette of the Ulster Bank's principal office building, rendered as a grand neoclassical structure with a colonnaded facade, broad entrance steps, and statuary at the roofline. The architectural vignette is set within an ornate scrollwork frame, from which radiating guilloche lines emanate outward to fill the entire field of the note. |
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Ulster Bank's pre-decimal £10 notes from this period occupy an unusual corner of Northern Irish banking history. Unlike the major London clearing banks, Ulster Bank retained its right to issue its own notes under the Currency Act arrangements applying to Northern Ireland — a privilege that persisted long after similar rights had been extinguished elsewhere in the UK.
Charles Skipper & East were the workhorses of commercial bank note printing in Ireland and Britain for decades, handling security printing for numerous provincial issuers. The "Northern Ireland" printer attribution on P#317 should be treated with caution — Skipper & East's principal facilities were in London, and regional attributions in catalog records for this series have a history of reflecting the client's address rather than the actual press location.
The nine-year date span suggests wartime and postwar production runs overlapped without significant design revision.