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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NorlinAirlann, post: 4687078, member: 114054&quot;]One of my favourite notes from that era, Bank of Ireland was actually headquartered in Dublin, but with the partition of Ireland in 1922 and the resultant creation of the currency commission in 1927 regulating bank issued notes Bank of Ireland could only issue &quot;ploughman&quot; notes in Ireland beginning in 1929 and could not use their own design notes in the Irish Free State.&nbsp; The earliest version of this particular note was issued in Dublin in June 1922, with more of a green tinted background than the later notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The partitioning of Ireland and the introduction of the Free State and later Currency Commission and Ploughman issues coupled with the redefined note issue in Northern Ireland is an amazingly fascinating topic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Curiously as a collector of said notes, I find that in general the notes issued by banks headquartered in Dublin and London tend to have much more attractive designs than the Belfast headquartered banks which tend to be more uniform in blandness.&nbsp; And prices for said notes agree, National Bank and Bank of Ireland notes are priced much more dear than Belfast Banking, Ulster Bank etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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