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100 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Ireland |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds (100 Punt) |
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| Obverse lettering | Banc Ceannais na hÉireann Céad Punt (Translation: Central Bank of Ireland One Hundred Pounds) |
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| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Ireland £100 One Hundred Pounds |
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Robert Ballagh designed this note — a somewhat unusual choice, given that he was primarily known as a painter and printmaker with an explicitly political edge, not a conventional banknote artist. His involvement reflected a deliberate push by the Central Bank in the 1970s and 1980s to commission Irish artists rather than default to established security printers' in-house design teams.
By 1996, the Irish pound was already living on borrowed time. The euro transition was less than six years away, and high-denomination notes like this one saw relatively limited everyday handling — mostly institutional and banking use. Survivors in genuinely circulated condition are proportionally rarer than lower values from the same series.