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5 Pounds Northern Banking Company
| Issuer | Northern Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1908-1916 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds (5 Puint) |
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| Obverse description | The upper central vignette carries a sailing ship flanked by dual serial number panels marked BELFAST and DUBLIN respectively, with the large word FIVE rendered in bold intaglio dominating the central field. A running guilloche border along the top and bottom margins lists the bank's branch locations in small letterpress text. The legend ESTABLISHED 1824 appears beneath the ship vignette, and the issuer's full title NORTHERN BANKING COMPANY LIMITED arcs across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Northern Banking Company Limited Established 1824 Promise to pay the bearer on demand at the Bank or any of its Branches FIVE POUNDS BRITISH value received Belfast For the Northern Banking Company Limited |
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The Northern Banking Company Limited was one of the smaller Irish joint-stock banks that survived into the twentieth century before being absorbed into the consolidating banking landscape of post-partition Ireland — it eventually merged into the National Bank in 1917, which gives this series its natural terminus. Notes issued in the final years before that merger are considerably harder to locate than earlier printings, since the bank was visibly winding down its independent note-issuing operations.
Irish provincial bank notes of this period frequently circulated far longer than their issue dates suggest, accepted on trust within established trade networks rather than redeemed promptly at branch.