Bank of Ireland 1922

this is my latest note to add to my collection. A 1922 Irish pound, now these pounds
pre dated the ploughman notes in early Ireland. i hope you like the seated Hibernia on the rev and the Statues of Hibernia right and left of the obv.
sorry about the pics but my scanner is not working.

 

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What a lovely note! Yes, I like it!!!

 

Love it, we have a paper money collector that rarely makes it hear any more that I am sure would enjoy this note and the vignettes on it! Thanks for sharing!

 

Nice pick up Dave...love the art work on a note like this one....I truely wish they printed notes like that now a days.
The twentys and 30's really had some great coinage and paper money! Sad to say those days are long gone! Art Deco
coinage and notes some of best ever done.IMHO

 

That is a sweet note! I do really love the vingettes! Work like that took countless hours and a ton of talent!!

 

This design lasted many years more in Northern Ireland issued in Belfast instead of Dublin.

 

It is great that there is a thread on here concerning IRISH notes. I was going to ask this question in my own thread, but I will ask here instead. I believe it is appropriate. I am new to collecting currency, and although I am mainly interested in American notes, I do have a curiosity in some foreign. I checked out Ebay for Irish notes and cannot believe the price of them. Is there a reason that they are so high? I purchased some from the Middle East and, in my opinion, payed nearly nothing for them.

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=bank+ireland&_sacat=See-All-Categories

 

Its just like any other collectible, DF. Rarity, quality, demand, beauty... all end up determining selling price. There are certainly banknotes from the Middle East that are very valuable too, I have a want list of some expensive ones that I've been eying for a long time.

Dave

 

Thanks Dave. I just wasn't sure if Irish money had changed and that accounted for it's rarity. Is what Ebay has for sale, still the same type of currency you find in Ireland today?

 

Ireland now uses the Euro. Northern Ireland has the British pound.
lThere are still some commercial banknotes issued in Northern Ireland.

 

Mostly one sees this as a Belfast issue, with a blue underprint and from the 40s. A note from Dublin with that date - A week before the Irish Civil War breaks out - is a great find.

 

Beautiful!

 

thanks john and thanks to all for your replys , but john hit the nail on the head with this one, these notes were minted just as the currency commission was being set up in Ireland.
so this was one of the last notes printed in sterling pounds in Dublin.
fairly hard to get in this condition.

 

What a stunning note Dave :thumb: you mifght find this of interest about the history of the bank itself

http://www.answers.com/topic/bank-of-ireland-adr

 

It is an axiom in economics that demand drives price. In America, we have millions of "professional Irish" who think more of the Old Sod than their ancestors ever did. As an auction, eBay is driven by emotions, not reasons.

 

It is more to do with the scarcity of these notes that drive up the prices, the same goes for the coinage as the Republic has a smaller population than the UK they produce less coins and notes and when you have a number of issuing banks across Ireland as a whole never mind the UK notes you begin to see a pattern emerge

This is a list since 1929

Bank of Ireland 1929-
Belfast Banking Company 1929-1968
National Bank 1929-1959
Northern Bank 1929-
Provincial Bank of Ireland 1929-1981
Allied Irish Bank 1982-1993
First Trust Bank 1994-
Ulster Bank 1929-

On top of this you had notes issued by the Bank of England & the Central Bank of Ireland

Until the advent of the Euro you might well have found any of the Irish notes in any part of the country
It was not until 1979 that a exchange rate was introduced between the Irish Punt and the Pound sterling and up till 1986 the coinage was more or less identical in shape and size LOL
This period also saw the creation of the Currency Centre at Sandyford in 1978 so that banknotes and coinage could be manufactured within the state. Prior to this banknotes were printed by specialist commercial printers in England, and coins by the Royal Mint.

 

Resurrected this old thread as I hadn't seen it before - an' what a lovely note in the OP's post. I really like the earlier "green" pound note - for some reason after 1929 - perhaps due to the creation of a separate currency in the south - they changed the background to blue. The whole series of Bank of Ireland notes has been lovely, with evocative and meaningful designs that don't incite protest or defacement like some others did.

Here are my offerings on Bank of Ireland notes:

 

Wonderful allegories on those notes, SM. I'm intrigued by the "row of heads" idea, and there is a French note with a whole "mass of heads" that I hope to own one day. I'm not sure what the artistic intent is with such a thing, any ideas? It is Hermes, who is usually associated with Commerce, so his representation makes sense, but does putting 20 of them in a row mean "we really, really, really want to do business with you" ?

Dave

 

Humans are evolved to notice slight differences in faces. Using lots of faces on a note makes it harder to counterfeit, as even a tiny difference will be noticed if it involves a human face.

 

Ah, excellent point John. I "knew that" but hadn't thought of its application. Very neat!

Dave