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5 Pounds Northern Bank
| Issuer | Northern Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1970-1986 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Northern Bank Limited ESTABLISHED 1824 PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND Five Pounds AT HEAD OFFICE, BELFAST FOR NORTHERN BANK LIMITED |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and pink on a lightly tinted ground, with elaborate multicolour guilloche rosettes at left and right flanking the central motif. At centre, the bank's griffin logo — a rampant winged lion-griffin holding a key and sword — is enclosed within a circle of dots. The denomination '£5' appears in blue within oval underprint panels at lower left and lower right, and the bank name is lettered in bold capitals along the lower margin. |
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Northern Bank was a Belfast-based commercial bank with the right to issue its own notes in Northern Ireland — a privilege that persisted long after note-issuing by private banks had ended elsewhere in the United Kingdom. This £5 ran across five different chief cashier signatures over sixteen years, making signature variety the primary collecting distinction within the series. The Ervin and Roberts dates are noticeably scarcer than the earlier Wilson and Gabbey issues.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed from their New Malden works, as they did for a substantial portion of British colonial and provincial bank output during this period.