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100 Pounds Ulster Bank
| Issuer | Ulster Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a pastoral vignette of fields at lower left, with a view of Belfast at bottom centre and the distinctive basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway at lower right. The promise-to-pay legend is inscribed across the note, with the denomination and issuer name rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ulster Bank Limited / NIHIL IMPOSSIBILE ERIT NOBIS / THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED |
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Ulster Bank Limited has issued high-denomination notes through De La Rue for decades, but the £100 remained a genuinely rare circulation item in Northern Ireland — most were used for interbank settlement and bulk cash handling rather than retail transactions, and many returned to the issuing bank without significant time in public hands.
Ulster Bank's right to issue its own sterling notes in Northern Ireland derives from legislation predating partition, a quirk that has never been revoked. The watermark security on this series was considered adequate for the period, though De La Rue would introduce substantially more complex features on successor issues through the 1990s.