50 Pounds

50 Pounds - obverse50 Pounds - reverse

Obverse © www.irishpapermoney.com (CC BY-SA)

Features

Issuer Ireland
Issuing bank Central Bank of Ireland (Banc Ceannais na hÉireann)
Period Republic (1937-date)
Type Standard banknote
Years 1943-1960
Value 50 Pounds (50 Puint)
Currency Pound (1826-1971)
Composition Paper
Size 203 × 114 mm
Shape Rectangular
Number
N#
230147
References P# 61
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States.
And 2 more volumes.

Obverse

Lady Hazel Lavery

Lettering:
The Central Bank of Ireland
Banc Ceannais na hÉireann
Legal Tender Note
Nóta Dlí-Thairgthe
Fifty Pounds Sterling Payable to Bearer on Demand in London
Tá Caoga Punt Sterling Iníoctha as an Nóta so le n-a Shealbhóir ar n-a Éilamh san do i Lundain

Reverse

River Shannon spirit

Printer

Waterlow & Sons Limited, United Kingdom (1810-1961)

Comments

For similar notes, see P#6 and P#68.
Currency Commission Irish Free State: P#6
Central Bank of Ireland without promise to pay in London: P#68

A full list of dates of issue for the Lady Lavery £50 notes can be found on the Irish paper money website, along with an image of a note of each recorded date, where available.

Irish Legal Tender ‘Lady Lavery’ banknotes, Series A, were in circulation in the Irish Free State and Republic of Ireland, 1928 - 1977.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1943  P#61a, signatures Brennan & McElligott
1946  P#61a, signatures Brennan & McElligott
1947  P#61a, signatures Brennan & McElligott
1949  P#61a, signatures Brennan & McElligott
1950  P#61a, signatures Brennan & McElligott
1951  P#61a, signatures Brennan & McElligott
1954  P#61b, signatures McElligott & Redmond
1957  P#61c, signatures McElligott & Whitaker
1960  P#61c, signatures McElligott & Whitaker

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