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100 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1963-1977 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds (100 Puint) |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio-printed oval vignette at left centre presents the portrait of Lady Hazel Lavery draped in a dark shawl, her chin resting on one hand beside a Celtic harp against a landscape background. A yellow-ochre underprint carries bilingual legal tender inscriptions in English and Irish flanking a guilloche numeral panel at centre, with two intaglio signature lines below — those of the Governor and the Secretary of the Department of Finance — above an ornate cartouche bearing the denomination £100. The border is composed of intricate Celtic knotwork and lathe-work guilloche panels, with denomination numerals repeated in each corner. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The £100 was the highest denomination in the Central Bank's "Lady Lavery" series, and at that value it was essentially a banker's note — rarely handled by the general public and more often used for interbank settlement than retail commerce. The Whitaker signature is worth noting: T.K. Whitaker served as Secretary of the Department of Finance before moving to the Governor's chair at the Central Bank, and his name appearing on Irish currency across two different signature pairings reflects an unusually long institutional tenure during a period of significant economic transformation in the Republic.
Early dates were printed by De La Rue; later issues came from the Central Bank's own printing works in Dublin, which became operational in the mid-1970s. The transition is not always obvious from the notes themselves.