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1 Pound Manx Bank
| Issuer | The Manx Bank Limited |
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| Year | 1882-1900 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Reverse lettering | THE MANX BANK LIMITED ISLE OF MAN |
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| Variants | P#16 - Specimen |
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The Manx Bank Limited was established in 1882, operating out of Douglas as one of several private note-issuing banks on the Isle of Man during a period when the island's banking sector was notoriously fragile. The bank collapsed in 1900, making this series among the shortest-lived private issues from the island. Notes were redeemable locally and carried no guarantee from any mainland institution.
Waterlow & Sons produced a substantial share of private British and colonial banknote work in this period, but surviving Manx Bank examples are genuinely rare — the failure and subsequent receivership meant most outstanding notes were either redeemed under distressed conditions or simply lost.