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5 Pounds Northern Bank
| Issuer | Northern Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse lettering | Northern Bank Limited Promise to pay the bearer on demand Five Pounds at Belfast / Established 1824 / BELFAST / FIVE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed entirely in blue and centres on a large circular guilloche rosette with an interlaced NLB bank monogram at its heart, surrounded by concentric rings of fine geometric lathe-work. Two smaller circular guilloche medallions, each bearing the numeral 5, flank the central rosette symmetrically at left and right. The printer's imprint appears at lower centre. |
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Northern Bank Limited operated as a commercial bank in Northern Ireland, and this 1968 issue was printed by Perkins, Bacon — a firm with deep roots in security printing, best known internationally for producing the world's first adhesive postage stamps in 1840. By the late 1960s, Perkins Bacon was losing ground to larger competitors and would exit banknote printing entirely within a decade.
Northern Ireland's note-issuing commercial banks operated under a unique arrangement that persisted through the Troubles and well beyond decimalisation, making issues from this transitional pre-decimal period worth tracking carefully by date.