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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Currency Commission Ireland |
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| Year | 1940-1942 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds (5 Puint) |
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| Obverse lettering | Currency Commission Ireland Coimisiún Airgid Reatha Éire Legal Tender Note Nóta Dlí-Thairgthe Five Pounds Sterling Payable to Bearer on Demand in London Tá Cúig Puint Sterling Iníoctha as an Nóta so le n-a Shealbhóir ar n-a Éilamh san do i Lundain |
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| Signature(s) | Joseph Brennan and J.J. McElligott |
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The Currency Commission Ireland was replaced by the Central Bank of Ireland under the Central Bank Act of 1942, which is why this series has such a compressed issue window — notes bearing the Commission's name were still being produced right up to the institutional handover. Waterlow & Sons had held the Irish printing contract since the original Consolidated Banknote series launched in 1928, a relationship built partly on the practical need to produce secure currency outside the jurisdiction of British clearing banks during a politically sensitive period.
Brennan as Currency Commissioner was the architect of the 1927 Currency Act that pegged the Irish pound at parity with sterling — a policy he defended long after many economists had turned against it.