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5 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds (5 Puint) |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank of Ireland I Promise to pay the bearer on Demand Five Pounds Dublin For the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland |
| Reverse description | The reverse is left entirely unprinted, exposing the natural laid paper stock. A circular ink cancellation stamp is present towards the right, with faint manuscript notations visible at the left, consistent with contemporary banking or clearing usage. |
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The Bank of Ireland's 1919 five pound notes were issued during one of the most unstable periods in Irish political history — the War of Independence was intensifying, and the bank's operations in Dublin continued under considerable pressure. Unlike many contemporary provincial issues, Bank of Ireland notes of this period retained wide acceptance across the island, partly because the institution maintained its status as the government's banker despite the worsening situation on the ground.
Notes from this specific year are meaningfully scarcer than those from the early 1920s, when printing volumes increased. The 1919 date places this squarely before the partition of Ireland and the banking reorganization that followed.