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5 Pounds Belfast Banking Company
| Issuer | Belfast Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1923-1966 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | The bank's armorial vignette is centered at the top, flanked by provincial arms cartouches at left and right, all set within an elaborate engraved border with corner numerals reading FIVE. The promise-to-pay legend runs in italic script across the center field, with FIVE POUNDS in bold letterpress below, and the issuing city BELFAST and date at lower left. A manuscript signature appears at lower right above the printed attribution for Belfast Banking Company Limited. |
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| Reverse lettering | Belfast Banking Company Limited FIVE 5 |
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The Belfast Banking Company Limited was absorbed into the Northern Bank in 1970, ending a banking lineage that stretched back to 1827. This 5 Pound note spans an unusually long print run — over four decades — during which Northern Ireland's note-issuing arrangements remained largely unchanged while the rest of the sterling zone consolidated rapidly around the Bank of England.
Irish provincial bank notes of this period routinely circulated at par with Bank of England issues but had no legal tender status anywhere, relying entirely on public confidence and the issuing bank's reputation for acceptance.