5 Pounds Provincial Bank of Ireland

5 Pounds (Provincial Bank of Ireland) - obverse5 Pounds (Provincial Bank of Ireland) - reverse

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

Features

Issuer Ireland
Issuing bank Provincial Bank of Ireland
Period Irish Free State (1922-1937)
Republic (1937-date)
Type Standard banknote
Years 1929-1939
Value 5 Pounds (5 Puint)
Currency Pound (1826-1971)
Composition Paper
Size 165 × 92 mm
Shape Rectangular
Number
N#
230692
References P# 39
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

Horse-drawn plough

Lettering:
Currency Commission Consolidated Bank Note
Coimisiún Airgid Reatha Nóta Bainc Có-Dhlúite
Five Pounds
Cúig Puint
Payable at the Principle Office in Dublin of
Tá so iníoctha ag an bPríomh-Oifig i mBaile Átha Cliath de
The Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited

Reverse

St. Patrick's Bridge, Cork

Printer

De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date)

Comments

A complete list of the issued dates of the Currency Commission Consolidated £5 notes from Central Bank of Ireland records is on www.irishpapermoney.com. An example of each recorded date is pictured.

The Currency Commission Consolidated Bank Notes are colloquially referred to as the 'Ploughman Notes'. They circulated in Ireland from 1929 until 1953, and were issued by the 8 joint stock banks which operated in the Irish Free State after Ireland became independent from British rule in 1921.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1929  P#39a, Signatures Brennan & Robertson
1931  P#39b, Signatures Brennan & Forde
1939  P#39b, Signatures Brennan & Kennedy

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