3 Pounds Bank of Ireland

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.