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20 Pounds Danske Bank
| Issuer | Danske Bank (Northern Bank Limited) |
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| Year | 2019-2022 |
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| Composition | Polymer |
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| Obverse description | At right, a portrait of Harry Ferguson (1884–1960), the Ulster-born engineer and tractor pioneer, is set against a blue guilloche underprint, with a small vignette of a Ferguson tractor at lower centre-right. A vertical transparent polymer window at left incorporates an optically variable holographic device with an image of Belfast City Hall dome and a colour-shifting numeral '20'. The Danske Bank logotype appears within a dark blue panel at upper centre, below which the issue date and 'At Belfast' inscription accompany the serial number. |
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| Protection description | Transparent polymer window at left (obverse) / right (reverse) incorporating a holographic image of Belfast City Hall dome and a colour-shifting numeral '20'; micro-printed 'DanskeBank' text repeated across the lower border on the reverse; no traditional watermark due to polymer substrate. |
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Northern Bank rebranded to Danske Bank in 2012, making this the only polymer series issued under that name before the Danish parent withdrew from the Republic of Ireland retail market in 2019 and subsequently announced its full exit from Northern Ireland personal banking in 2021. The notes remained legal tender in Northern Ireland alongside the other clearing bank issues, as they do under the terms governing authorised commercial note-issuing banks there.
The polymer substrate was sourced from De La Rue's Safeguard platform, which Northern Bank had already adopted before the rebrand — one of the earlier commercial bank adoptions of polymer in the UK and Ireland.