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20 Pounds Northern Bank
| Issuer | Northern Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1997-1999 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette reproduces the sculptural pediment of Belfast City Hall in intaglio-style engraving, captioned "City Hall, Belfast" beneath. The architectural facade of the building extends to either side, framed by elaborate multicolour guilloche patterns and geometric latticework filling the background. The denomination "£20" and script legend "Twenty Pounds Sterling" appear above and below the central motif respectively. |
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| Variants | P#199a - 24.02.1997 P#199b - 08.10.1999 |
| Comments |
Northern Bank Limited was a Belfast-headquartered institution with roots going back to 1809, but by the time this note was issued it was owned by National Australia Bank — a fact that sat uncomfortably with both the bank's name and its Northern Irish identity. Banknote-issuing rights for Northern Ireland's commercial banks survived partition and have continued under successive ownership changes, making the issuer's name increasingly detached from its actual corporate reality.
Thomas De La Rue's printing for this series is competent but unremarkable by the standards of their late-1990s output. The cotton substrate was already giving way to polymer trials elsewhere in the British Isles during this period.