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5 Pounds Northern Banking Company
| Issuer | Northern Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | At the top centre, a vignette of a sailing ship at sea with dock machinery to the right, framed beneath the bank title in bold lettering on a scroll banner reading 'Northern Banking Company Limited' with 'Established 1824' above. Branch names of the bank's offices across Ireland are listed in small text flanking the central guilloche panel, within which the word 'FIVE' is printed in large bold letterpress. Serial numbers appear in rectangular panels at upper left and right, with a manuscript signature and the issuing clause at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Established 1824 |
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The Northern Banking Company Limited was one of the older Belfast-based provincial banks still issuing its own notes into the early twentieth century, a privilege that would effectively end when the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland partition arrangements reshaped the note-issuing framework after 1921. The 1918 date places this note squarely in the wartime period, when paper quality and ink supplies across British commercial printers were noticeably constrained — Perkins, Bacon were still producing security work, but the material limitations of 1917–1918 are occasionally visible in surviving examples of this series.
Perkins, Bacon's involvement gives it reliable intaglio security printing credentials, the same firm responsible for early British colonial stamp and banknote production across several continents.