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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 8216802, member: 12789&quot;]<b>Belfast Northern Ireland - Bank of Ireland £1 6 May 1929</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1442381[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>As a consequence of the partition of Ireland and Northern Ireland beginning in 1921 and thence Irish independence and the creation of a monetary authority in Ireland currency issue in both new entities changed dramatically.&nbsp; In the so-called Irish Free State a currency commission was formed beginning in 1927 with the long term objective of the government regulating paper money issue that had been the prerogative of of private banks for over 140 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Banks that issued notes in the now Free State had to issued Consolidated notes through the currency commission with a common design(the Ploughman Series) but banks issuing notes in Northern Ireland could continue to issue their notes as before - but those notes issued in NI could only circulate there and not the Free State.</p><p><br /></p><p>This note is from the first issue where the Bank of Ireland issued notes in Belfast as opposed to their previous from Dublin issue - the 6th of May was the first date on all newly issued Northern Ireland notes.&nbsp; The design of this particular note is a continuation of the design used since 1922 in Dublin - but with Belfast instead.&nbsp; While the notes issued in Dublin previously were all printed at the Bank of Ireland headquarters there, these new Northern Ireland notes were printed by Thomas De La Rue.&nbsp; Whilst the colours of this note are very lovely they would be shortlived, only issued as such until 1936 when the colours of the £1 note were changed to blue - a curious feature since the colours of the £10 note were also blue, but the latter was significantly larger in size.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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