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5 Pounds Provincial Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited |
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| Year | 1968-1972 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a classical female bust in profile facing left, set within an oval guilloche frame. Sterling pound symbols flank the vignette on either side, with the bank's establishment date and note-issue authority printed in the upper left. The promise-to-pay text and denomination are rendered in a combination of copperplate script and bold letterpress, with the date and signature appearing below. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Provincial Bank of Ireland's Belfast branch building, a classical Italianate structure with arched ground-floor arcade and pedimented upper storey. The building is flanked symmetrically by large sterling pound symbols rendered in bold script, all set against an intricate background of fine-line guilloche rosettes and engine-turned geometric lathe work covering the full note surface. |
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The Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited was absorbed into Allied Irish Banks in 1966, but notes continued to circulate under the Provincial name for years afterward — a common transitional arrangement in Irish banking that left legacy branding on instruments well past the merger. This note falls squarely in that overlap period, issued after the bank had effectively ceased to exist as an independent institution.
De La Rue's involvement with Irish commercial bank issues was long-standing by this point, and the quality of the intaglio work on Provincial notes of this era is noticeably consistent across the series.