Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Shillings
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ireland |
|---|---|
| Year | 1943-1944 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Waterlow & Sons Limited, United Kingdom (1810-1961) |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | At left centre, an oval intaglio vignette presents Lady Hazel Lavery draped in a shawl, set against a red and green guilloche underprint. The denomination 10/- appears in each corner, with a serif prefix letter within a circle at upper left and lower right. Two manuscript signatures occupy the centre field — those of the Governor and the Secretary of the Department of Finance — with the date of issue printed at lower centre. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Brennan-McElligott signature combination dates this note to the very early wartime issues of the series — Joseph Brennan served as Governor from the bank's foundation in 1943, while J. J. McElligott was Secretary of the Department of Finance, a pairing that reflects the unusually tight relationship between the Central Bank and the Irish Treasury during the war years. Ireland's wartime neutrality did little to insulate the economy from severe import disruption, and paper currency demand spiked as banking activity shifted away from sterling.
Waterlow & Sons had been printing Irish notes since the Currency Commission era, and the relationship continued seamlessly into the new Central Bank's first issues. The P#1D designation places this among the earliest denomination releases under the 1943 Central Bank Act.