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100 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Currency Commission Ireland |
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| Year | 1929-1930 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough across a field, rendered in fine engraved detail with two horses and a rural landscape in the background. Bilingual headings appear across the top in English and Irish Gaelic, with the issuing bank name THE BANK OF IRELAND in bold letterpress at the foot. The denomination £100 appears in guilloche panels at lower left and lower right, with vertical side legends reading ONE HUNDRED POUNDS and CÉAD PUNT respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio landscape vignette of Killiney Bay, County Dublin, framed within an ornate engraved border of intricate guilloche scrollwork. The panoramic scene captures the bay's shoreline, rocky cliffs to the right, and the mountains of the Wicklow range rising in the distance beneath a clouded sky. Denomination numerals £100 appear in bold engraved cartouches at the lower left and lower right, set against a lilac and olive underprint. |
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The Currency Commission was established by the Irish Free State's Currency Act of 1927 to issue a new consolidated currency — the Saorstát pound — at parity with sterling. This 100 Pound note belongs to the "Ploughman" series, so called by collectors for the agricultural vignette that De La Rue engraved for the reverse. At face value, 100 Pounds represented a substantial sum in 1929 Ireland, and denominations of this size rarely moved through ordinary retail trade.
Surviving examples are genuinely scarce. High-denomination notes of this series were used almost exclusively for interbank settlement and were typically returned, cancelled, and destroyed rather than accumulating in private hands.