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Message:: [QUOTE="afantiques, post: 2914936, member: 71234"]I assume the first two pictures were reversed in a photo processing program to make them easily readable. It takes but an iinstant to do this. It does appear to be a plate for a provincial bank. Since the 18th C the Bank of England was the official bank note issuer, but English banks all over the country issued notes in the 19th C, and these are collected today.  Some of the banks failed, making the notes worthless, or partially payable, other banks merged with banks that are still active and are in theory still worth the face value although the collectable value is much higher.I cannot read the partner's names from the plate, but these names will enable you to search British Provincial banknotes to find out exactly what happened to that bank. On the reversed image I can see mention of an Act of Parliament in the reign of George IV authorising the issue. (Roughly 1820-30)It is not unknown, although it is rare, for printing plates to surface, and I have no idea of a fair price. To a collector of Provincial notes $500 may well be a reasonable price. Such collectors would almost certainly be in Britain.Some Scottish and Northern Irish banks still issue their own banknotes today. Technically, they are not 'legal tender' but this is immaterial since everyone in the relevant countries accepts them, as do all banks in England.[/QUOTE]