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20 Pounds Ulster Bank
| Issuer | Ulster Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1941-1948 |
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| Printer | Charles Skipper & East, Northern Ireland |
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| Obverse lettering | Ulster Bank Limited Northern Ireland Issue I Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand Twenty Pounds Sterling at the Head Office of the Bank in Belfast For the Ulster Bank Limited Belfast |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in light blue and displays a detailed architectural vignette of the Ulster Bank head office building in Belfast, rendered in intaglio with a classical neo-Palladian façade, grand entrance staircase, and figurative statuary along the roofline. The central vignette is framed by fine ornamental scrollwork cartouche. Radiating wavy-line guilloche fills the entire background, extending to plain margins at each edge. |
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Ulster Bank's wartime and immediate postwar £20 notes are among the rarer high-denomination provincial Irish issues. The denomination itself saw limited demand in everyday commerce — £20 was a substantial sum in 1940s Northern Ireland — so print runs were modest and circulation light, meaning survivors in any condition are uncommon.
Charles Skipper & East handled security printing work for several Irish provincial banks during this period. The "Northern Ireland" attribution on this note refers to the place of payment jurisdiction, not necessarily where sheets were pressed.