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Message:: [QUOTE="De Orc, post: 1005563, member: 4408"]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 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> 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 LOLThis 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.[/QUOTE]