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5 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1922-1928 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Two allegorical figures of Hibernia stand at left and right, flanking a central guilloche vignette bearing a Medusa-head motif with the numeral 5 and the denomination FIVE POUNDS in red overprint. A frieze of female portrait heads runs along the top margin, with the bank title in script lettering across the upper centre and the date and serial number printed in black at lower left and right. |
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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 |
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The Bank of Ireland continued issuing notes under its own authority during the years immediately following Partition, a period of genuine constitutional ambiguity about which institutions would survive and which would be absorbed into new state banking frameworks. These 1922–1928 issues predate the Currency Commission's consolidation, after which the associated banks lost independent note-issuing rights in the Free State — making this series one of the last expressions of that older, pre-independence banking order.
Paper quality on surviving examples from this run tends toward toning at the margins, a known characteristic of the stock used across Bank of Ireland issues from this transitional period.