20 Pounds Bank of Ireland - Old Bushmills Distillery

Bank of Ireland's commemorative £20 for the Old Bushmills Distillery ties to a genuine claim: Bushmills holds a 1608 royal licence to distill, making it among the oldest licensed whiskey operations in the world. The note was issued to mark the distillery's 400th anniversary of that grant.

De La Rue's Gateshead facility handled production — a northern English plant printing a Northern Irish commemorative, which is unremarkable logistics but worth noting given how often "Printed: Belfast" gets read as a De La Rue facility designation rather than a place-of-payment reference.

The 1608 licence was granted by King James I.