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5 Pounds Isle of Man Bank
| Issuer | Isle of Man Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1936-1960 |
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| Size | 176 × 92 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single brown tone and divided into three vertical panels, each enclosed in intricate guilloche lacework. The central panel carries the Manx triskeles within a circular guilloche rosette inscribed with the motto 'QUOCUNQUE JECERIS STABIT', while the flanking panels each bear the numeral '5' within matching ornamental frames. The bank title 'ISLE OF MAN BANK LIMITED' appears in a cartouche at the top, with 'FIVE POUNDS' in a decorative panel at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | ISLE OF MAN BANK LIMITED FIVE POUNDS QUOCUNQUE JECERIS STABIT |
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The Isle of Man Bank Limited was incorporated in 1865 and remained the dominant commercial bank on the island well into the twentieth century, issuing its own notes under the rights retained by Manx banks independently of the Bank of England. Waterlow & Sons handled the printing throughout this series, a firm that had a long and occasionally troubled relationship with banknote production — most notoriously through the Waterlow v. Bank of Portugal case of 1932, in which fraudulent overprinting of genuine Waterlow-printed plates caused a national monetary crisis in Portugal.
The twenty-four year span of this issue is unusually broad for a single pick number, suggesting relatively infrequent reissue rather than heavy circulation replacement.