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| 正面描述 | Letterpress-printed note on plain paper in black ink, with an ornate calligraphic heading reading 'The Silver Bank' at top centre, flanked by the numeral '6' within a dotted oval frame. To the left, an engraved oval vignette within a wreath border bears the bank's monogram. The denomination panel 'SIX SHILLINGS' is set within a dotted rectangular border at lower left, with the promise-to-pay text and place of issue inscribed in copperplate script across the body of the note, dated at Malahide 14th June 1804 and signed for Richard Mogan Talbot and Edward Glascock. |
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| 正面铭文 | The SILVER Bank 6 I Promise to Pay the Bearer on demand SIX SHILLINGS, here or in DUBLIN, at No. 10, St. Andrew Street. in Notes of the BANK of IRELAND Malahide the 14th day of June 1804 For Richd Mogan Talbot and Edward Glascock SIX SHILLINGS |
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The Silver Bank at Malahide was one of dozens of small Irish country banks operating in the early nineteenth century under virtually no regulatory framework — the Irish banking system before the 1824 reforms was notoriously fragile, and provincial issuers like this one frequently collapsed within a generation of opening. A 6 shilling denomination is itself unusual; fractional shilling notes of this type were a pragmatic response to chronic coin shortages in rural Ireland, where silver and copper currency rarely circulated in sufficient quantity.
Richard Mogan Talbot's family connection to the Malahide estate adds a layer of local politics to what might otherwise seem a purely commercial instrument.