Women On Banknotes

Here is a complement to the note posted earlier in the thread by walk2dwater, a Lavery war code £10 note.
The earlier Lavery notes, more or less pre-1960, tended to be darker ink. This is one of my favourite notes of the series.

We haven't had a £1 of Lady Lavery yet, so here goes. . .




This is an 01X Extrordinary Issue note - a nonsequential prefix and date. Normal prefixes were F and G.

Wow, I have had this note for a long time, scanned on 21 Mar 2000!

Here is another version of Hibernia, on her own this time, on a National Bank of Ireland note.

The £1 notes dated 11.3.63 were issued by the Central Bank of Ireland during a shortage of £1 notes in May 1974 when the printing of Irish banknotes was being transferred to .

There are a number of interesting things about these £1 notes.
The date 11.3.63 is not on the official list of dates for Irish Legal Tender Notes as given to Derek Young in 1972 when he wrote Guide to the Currency of Ireland.

The 11.3.63-dated notes exist with the mulbery variety, which demonstrates that they were printed and numbered in the 1960s and not in 1974.

We think the notes may have been printed as control notes, or as star notes and not used as such - we don't know. It is not correct to call them replacements as they were not used as such. they might also have been a test printing of some kind (as has probably happened with a 1992 printing of £20 notes).

They are quite common, as many were kept when they were issued in 1974. They are the only 1961-1968 Legal Tender Note Type which is easy to obtain in UNC.

By means of a survey of surviving serial numbers, it is likely that 2,000,000 notes were issued, with prefixes 01X and 02X.

Details are from the Extraordinary Issue One Pound Notes with 01X and 02X prefixes on the Irish paper money site.

Here is an 02X prefix note with mulberry serial numbers.



EDIT: I explaineed mulberry notes in this thread: http://goccf.com/t/409230

Very interesting. Thanks for the explanations!

Very nice!

Lovely!

Your 5 Pta note is in much better condition than my 10! nice to see them in decent grade.
Is that the same lady on both, I wonder.