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3 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1912-1914 |
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| Currency | Pound (1826-1971) |
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| Obverse description | Two standing allegorical figures of Hibernia, each in classical robes, flank the design at the left and right margins, with decorative guilloche borders above. The centre carries the denomination "Three Pounds" in bold script, the place and date of issue "Dublin" in red, and a five-line listing of Bank of Ireland branch towns in small letterpress type. Denomination panels reading "THREE" in ornate frames appear at the lower left and right corners. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank. |
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The Bank of Ireland's £3 denomination is one of the more unusual surviving Irish note values — three-pound notes were never common in the British Isles, and the Bank of Ireland was among the very few institutions still issuing them into the twentieth century, a holdover from an older Irish banking tradition that the Bank of England had long abandoned. The years 1912–1914 place this issue immediately before the disruptions of the war, after which Irish banking and currency arrangements were never quite the same.
Surviving examples from this short window are genuinely scarce. The Pick 75 series was not large to begin with, and wartime economic pressures accelerated the withdrawal of higher-denomination provincial notes from active use.