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100 Pounds Northern Bank
| Issuer | Northern Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1968 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Northern Bank Limited Promise to pay the bearer on demand One Hundred Pounds at Belfast Established 1824 One Hundred |
| Reverse description | Three large interlocking guilloche rosettes in blue intaglio fill the entire face: the central rosette encloses a cipher monogram combining the letters N and B, while the two flanking rosettes each bear the numeral 100. The printer's imprint Perkins Bacon & London appears in small letterpress below the central medallion. |
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Northern Bank Limited was a commercial bank operating under Northern Ireland's unique arrangement of note-issuing rights, which persisted — and still persists — well after such privileges were stripped from most British private banks in the nineteenth century. The £100 denomination was always a low-circulation instrument; at 1968 values, few individuals handled one in the ordinary course of trade. Most moved between businesses and clearing accounts.
Perkins, Bacon had a long record printing colonial and Commonwealth currency by this date, but their work for Northern Ireland's note-issuing banks represents a less-documented corner of their output. The firm was already winding down its banknote operations in the late 1960s.