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50 Pounds Belfast Banking Company
| Issuer | Belfast Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1923-1963 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by intricate guilloche lathe-work patterns forming a continuous decorative underprint across the field, providing both aesthetic and anti-counterfeiting function. |
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| Variants | P#130a - 03.01.1923 & 03.05.1923 black serial # P#130b - 09.11.1939 & 10.08.1940 yellow serial # P#130c - 03.02.1943 black serial # P#130d - 03.12.1963 black serial # |
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The Belfast Banking Company Limited occupied a peculiar position in Irish banking history — it was one of the Ulster joint-stock banks that continued issuing its own notes well after partition in 1921, operating entirely within Northern Ireland while remaining legally distinct from both the Bank of England and the newly established Free State banking system. This £50 note sits at the high end of a series that ran largely unchanged for four decades, which itself tells you something about how rarely the denomination was used in everyday trade.
The company was absorbed by the Midland Bank in 1970, ending over 130 years of independent note issue.