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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Currency Commission Ireland |
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| Year | 1940-1941 |
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| Size | 138 × 78 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Currency Commission Ireland Coimisiún Airgid Reatha Éire Legal Tender Note Nóta Dlí-Thairgthe Ten Shillings Sterling Payable to Bearer on Demand in London Tá Deich Scillinge Sterling Iníoctha as an Nóta so le n-a Shealbhóir ar n-a Éilamh san do i Lundain |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Currency Commission Ireland was replaced by the Central Bank of Ireland in 1943, making any note bearing the Commission's name a product of the institution's final years. This particular issue falls squarely in the wartime period, when Ireland's neutrality kept its banking infrastructure intact but paper and printing supply chains under strain.
Waterlow & Sons produced the full Consolidated Banknote series for the Commission from London — the same firm then printing for dozens of colonial and independent governments simultaneously. The two signatures here, Brennan and McElligott, reflect a brief transitional moment: Joseph Brennan had chaired the Commission since its founding in 1927, while J. J. McElligott served as Secretary of the Department of Finance.