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20 Pounds Provincial Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited |
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| Year | 1929-1944 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The centre vignette presents an engraved view of the Provincial Bank of Ireland's Belfast branch building, flanked by two oval guilloche medallions each bearing the word TWENTY in letterpress. The note is printed in blue-grey with a large red overprinted numeral 20 in the centre, and the date and serial number N 6570 appear in the lower portion. A fine guilloche border frames the entire face, with the bank title arched across the top and the legend UNLIMITED FOR NOTE ISSUE / ESTABLISHED A.D. 1825 beneath it. |
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| Variants | P#234a - signature: Robertson 06.05.1929 withour Printer's name on back P#234b - signature: Kennedy 20.04.1943 & 20.11.1944 with Printer's name on back |
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The Provincial Bank of Ireland was an entirely London-controlled institution — founded in 1825 with Whig parliamentary backing specifically to break the Bank of Ireland's near-monopoly outside Dublin. Its Irish note-issuing rights survived the 1921 partition intact, which is why this series continued printing through the 1940s for use on both sides of the border without legal interruption.
The Robertson-signed examples from 1929 lack the Perkins Bacon imprint on the reverse — the printer's name was added to later printings under Kennedy, a small but diagnostically useful difference for dating undated or unclear examples within the series.