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5 Pounds Belfast Banking Company
| Issuer | Belfast Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1905 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Belfast Banking Company Limited I Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand here or at the Coy`s Branches Five Pounds Belfast For the Belfast Banking Company Limited Five Pounds Established 1827. Incorporated 1865. |
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| Reverse lettering | BELFAST BANKING COMPANY LIMITED FIVE FIVE |
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The Belfast Banking Company Limited was one of the older joint-stock banks in Ulster, established in 1827 and operating independently until its absorption by the Midland Bank in 1917. Notes of this period — the years immediately before that acquisition — represent the final phase of the bank's autonomous issue, and the 1905 date places this well within that window.
Charles Skipper & East were the dominant London printers for Irish provincial bank notes throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, supplying numerous Ulster institutions with engraved notes of consistent quality. The London production origin is sometimes overlooked by collectors who assume Irish provincial notes were printed domestically.