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5 Pounds Belfast Banking Company
| Issuer | Belfast Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Bank arms vignette at centre top flanked by two oval guilloche panels lettered FIVE, with the bank's circular seal at left bearing the company name. Two vertical columns of branch payable locations run along the left and right margins. A promise-to-pay text in letterpress script occupies the centre field, above the denomination in large orange underprint. |
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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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The Belfast Banking Company Limited was one of the older joint-stock banks operating in Ulster, founded in 1827 and eventually absorbed into the Midland Bank group in 1917 — meaning this 1918 note was issued almost immediately after that acquisition, while the old name and branding were still in use during the transition period.
Charles Skipper & East handled much of the Irish provincial bank printing business from London through this period. The firm's engraved work for Ulster banks is generally fine, though the Belfast Banking Company series is less studied than the concurrent output for Bank of Ireland or Ulster Bank.