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5 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1910-1918 |
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| Currency | Pound (1826-1971) |
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| Obverse description | Allegorical figures of Hibernia stand in vignette at left and right, each posed on a plinth with classical drapery. The centre of the note carries the bank title in script lettering, the denomination 'Five Pounds' in large text, the place and date of issue 'Dublin' in bold red, and a five-line listing of the Bank of Ireland branch offices. A decorative frieze of portrait medallions runs along the upper border, with guilloche ornaments filling the lower portion, and the promise-to-pay clause and authorising legend appear above a manuscript cashier's signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain paper surface with no design, text, or security devices, consistent with Bank of Ireland note production of this period. |
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Bank of Ireland 5 Pound notes of this period were issued under the continuing authority of the bank's original 1783 charter — a private institution with note-issuing rights that predated any central banking framework in Ireland by over a century. The period 1910–1918 brackets the Home Rule crisis, the Easter Rising of 1916, and the early years of the First World War, all of which placed unusual strain on Irish banking confidence without triggering the kind of runs or emergency overprints that affected some continental issuers.
Surviving examples from this series are scarcer than their English contemporaries largely because Irish provincial hoarding patterns differed sharply from British ones — higher-denomination notes tended to move through commercial channels and return to the bank relatively quickly for cancellation.