100 Pounds Bank of Ireland

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.