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20 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Uitgever | Bank of Ireland |
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| Jaar | 1929 |
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| Waarde | 20 Pounds |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | At left and right, intaglio vignettes present Hibernia as a classical seated female figure beside a harp and lion, each on a pedestal inscribed BONA FIDES REIPUBLICA STABILITAS. A central orange and green guilloche cartouche carries the numeral 20 on each side, with a fine engraved portrait of Hibernia at the centre within a circular legend; a frieze of repeated classical female heads runs along the upper border, while two ornate letterpress panels bearing TWENTY appear at lower left and right. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | BANK OF IRELAND TWENTY POUNDS 20 |
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| Opmerkingen |
Bank of Ireland's Belfast branch operated as a separate note-issuing authority from the Dublin head office under the Currency Act (Northern Ireland) 1927, which established a distinct legal framework for banknote issue in the newly partitioned North. This note falls squarely within the early years of that arrangement, when Belfast-issued Bank of Ireland notes circulated alongside those of several competing Ulster banks — all legally valid but each fiercely regional in practice.
The 1929 date places it just ahead of the economic shock that would suppress demand for high-denomination notes throughout the 1930s. Twenty-pound notes from this period saw very limited everyday use; they were instruments of commercial settlement, not retail trade.