Date: 1928 Description: A Currency Commission of the Irish Free State, Five Pounds brown, Type 1a (Fractional prefix). Signed by: Joseph Brennan / James J. McElligott. Serial numbers and dates in red ink. Designer: John Harrison, Chief Portrait Engraver of Waterlow and Sons Ltd, London Engraved and printed by Waterlow & Sons, on Portal’s paper,…
Date: 1925 Description: A Bank of Ireland (Seventeenth Issue), Five Pound Note, Type 1d (Larger fractional prefix), Signature: Joseph A. Gargan, Chief Cashier. Date: 26-SEP-1925 Issued on 26th September 1925 Serial Number: A/22 071927 Size: 175mm x 95mm Country: Ireland Category: Early Irish Banknotes Bank of Ireland Seventeenth Issue Five Pounds Type 1d Further…
Date: 1924 Description: A Bank of Ireland (Seventeenth Issue), Five Pound Note, Type 1c (In-line prefix), Signature: Joseph A. Gargan, Chief Cashier. Issued on 11th February 1922 Serial Number: 17R071679 Size: 175mm x 95mm Country: Ireland Category: Early Irish Banknotes Bank of Ireland Seventeenth Issue Five Pounds Type 1c Further Reading: Bank of Ireland…
Withdrawal from Circulation: According to Central Bank of Ireland records, all £20, £50 and £100 ‘ploughman’ notes were successfully withdrawn from circulation, i.e. there are no ‘circulating’ examples left for collectors to collect. That said, the remaining £1, £5 and £10 ‘ploughman’ notes aren’t exactly common nowadays either – as per table below: Estimated Number…
Gibbons & Williams Bank: Gibbons & Williams was one of the last private banks to be founded in Ireland. Founded in 1833, it spectacularly collapsed in 1835 when the senior partner, Hutchins Thomas Williams, was found to have been embezzling client funds. James Gibbons had parted company with him in 1834 and wasn’t involved in…
Gibbons & Williams Bank: Gibbons & Williams was one of the last private banks to be founded in Ireland. Founded in 1833, it spectacularly collapsed in 1835 when the senior partner, Hutchins Thomas Williams, was found to have been embezzling client funds. James Gibbons had parted company with him in 1834 and wasn’t involved in…
The Kilkenny Bank / Loughnan’s Bank: The Kilkenny Bank was first registered in 23rd September 1800, by Connel Loughnan and John Helsham. There was three sets of notes issued: Type 1 Signatories: Kilkenny Bank (Connel Loughnan and John Helsham) Type 2 Signatories: Kilkenny Bank (Michael Brennan and James Loughnan) Type 3 Signatories: Kilkenny Bank (James…
Introduction The Provincial Bank of Ireland was established in 1825, pioneered branch banking in Ireland. The terms, rights and privileges of the Bank of Ireland allowed it to effectively strangle the development of banking in Ireland until the Irish Banking Crisis that followed the post-Napoleonic War Depression. The Bank of Ireland effectively held a monopoly…
Introduction As early as 1971, the Central Bank of Ireland announced its intention to produce new banknotes to replace the long-lived Lady Lavery issue which had been printed by the Bank of England in London and circulating in Ireland since 1928. They sub-contracted the design phase to Servicon – an Irish design company, to design…
This series of notes is known as “Series C” and the designs are the output from a limited competition held in 1991 in which nine Irish artists were invited – the winner was Robert Ballagh. This series of notes had denominations of £5, £10, £20, £50 and £100 – with no pound note, since there a coin of this value…
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