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5 Pounds Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1971-1978 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1929-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | Bank of Ireland Five Pounds |
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| Variants | P#62a - signature: H. H. M. Chestnutt P#62b - signature: A. S. J. O'Neill |
| Comments |
The Bank of Ireland's £5 series running through the 1970s was a transitional issue caught between two monetary worlds — decimal currency had arrived in February 1971, but the punt wouldn't break from sterling parity until 1979. Notes circulating during this window were technically Irish pounds but functionally interchangeable with their British equivalents at par, which created unusual cross-border usage patterns along the Northern Ireland frontier that the bank quietly tolerated.
Chestnutt served as Governor; O'Neill as Chief Cashier. Both signatures appearing together places a given example within a narrower window inside the broader series dates.