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5 Pounds Ulster Bank
| Issuer | Ulster Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Size | 140 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents three landscape vignettes arranged along the lower register: agricultural fields at lower left, a panoramic view of Belfast at bottom centre, and the Giant's Causeway at lower right, all enclosed within a decorative border. The promise-to-pay inscription is rendered in letterpress across the face of the note, with the denomination expressed in full words. Guilloche underprinting in pale tones supports the overall design. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ulster Bank Limited promise to pay the bearer on demand Five Pounds at Head Office Belfast |
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Ulster Bank's pre-decimalization £5 note from 1966 sits in an awkward historical moment: the bank knew decimalization was coming — the Halsbury Committee had already reported in 1963 recommending the change — yet continued issuing traditional £ s d denominations until the system switched in February 1971. Notes from this late pre-decimal window were withdrawn relatively quickly once new designs were introduced, limiting their time in active use.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden works handled security printing for dozens of colonial and commercial bank clients during this period; their intaglio work on Ulster Bank issues is consistently fine, though the 1966 series is less technically ambitious than some of their concurrent Commonwealth commissions.