50 Pounds Ulster Bank

Ulster Bank Limited was a Belfast-based institution operating under Royal Bank of Scotland ownership from 1917, though it retained full authority to issue its own notes under the Irish banking provisions that survived partition. The 1929 fifty pound denomination was a high-value instrument — fifty pounds in that year was well beyond the weekly wage of almost any worker in Northern Ireland, meaning these circulated almost exclusively between businesses, solicitors, and merchants rather than in retail trade.

Pick 310 is genuinely rare in any condition. High-denomination notes of this period were typically cancelled and returned for destruction rather than accumulating in pockets or tills.