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3 Pounds Provincial Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited |
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| Year | 1905 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At top centre, a classical vignette of Britannia and Hibernia seated together, printed in blue intaglio style, flanked by oval guilloche cartouches bearing the denomination word THREE at left and right. The bank title PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND LIMITED runs along the top border, with the legend UNLIMITED FOR NOTE ISSUE beneath. The lower central field carries a handwritten promise-to-pay text with the date and serial numbers, below which four lines of small letterpress text list the bank's branch network across Ireland. A further denomination panel reading THREE POUNDS appears at lower left within a decorative cartouche. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, printed on plain paper with no design, text, or decorative elements. |
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The Provincial Bank of Ireland was founded in 1825 by Thomas Joplin, the same reformer who had been pushing for joint-stock banking in Britain for years before legislation finally allowed it. Unlike the Bank of Ireland, the Provincial was explicitly designed to operate through a branch network outside Dublin — a deliberate structural choice that made it the dominant commercial bank across rural Ireland for much of the nineteenth century.
A 3-pound denomination is an oddity worth noting. Irish banking retained the £3 note long after it vanished from English practice, partly reflecting the persistence of older livestock and land transaction values in rural markets where £1 was too little and £5 too much.