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5 Pounds Royal Bank of Ireland
| Issuer | Currency Commission Ireland |
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| Year | 1929-1939 |
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| Currency | Pound (1826-1971) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a finely engraved pastoral scene of a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough across a tilled field, with two draught horses at left and a rural landscape in the background. A large ornate £5 numeral in guilloche underprint occupies the centre, flanked by bilingual text in English and Irish running vertically along both side margins. The signatures of the Chairman of the Currency Commission and the bank's authorised signatory appear above and below the central vignette respectively, with the serial number printed in red at upper right and lower left. |
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| Signature(s) | 21.09.1939 - Brennan & Wilson 06.05.1929 - Brennan & Stanley 29.01.1931 & 08.05.1931 - Brennan & Mack |
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The Currency Commission was established by the Irish Free State in 1927 to manage a consolidated banknote issue, replacing the chaotic patchwork of notes issued separately by eight commercial banks. Rather than create a single state bank, the Commission allowed participating banks to retain their own names on notes while standardising the backing, issue, and redemption arrangements. The Royal Bank of Ireland was one of those eight.
Three distinct secretary pairings — Stanley, Mack, and Wilson — appear across this series, each change reflecting a personnel shift at the Commission itself. The Wilson signature dates fall in September 1939, the opening weeks of the Emergency, as Ireland's wartime period was officially termed.