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100 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette at left contains a seated allegorical figure of Hibernia with classical robes and attributes, set against a fine guilloche underprint in pink and blue tones. The Bank of Ireland logo and county arms appear at upper centre, with the denomination £100 in large numerals at upper right and lower left. The issuing authority, branch address at Donegall Place Belfast, and a manuscript signature above the title Manager appear at lower centre, alongside the date 28 August 1992. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of Ireland I promise to pay the bearer on demand One Hundred Pounds Sterling For the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland Belfast Donegall Place |
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The Bank of Ireland's £100 note from this period occupied an awkward transitional moment — sterling parity between the Irish pound and pound sterling had been severed in 1979 when Ireland joined the European Monetary System, and by the early 1990s the Irish pound was trading independently, making high-denomination notes like this one genuinely functional instruments for large domestic transactions rather than near-symbolic issues.
P#73 is not common in circulated grades. The £100 faced persistent public resistance to high-denomination paper in Ireland, and many were returned to the bank relatively quickly.