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6 Shillings Silver Bank
| Issuer | The Silver Bank, Malahide |
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| Year | 1804 |
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| Value | 6 Shillings (3⁄10) |
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| Obverse lettering | The SILVER Bank 6 I Promise to Pay the Bearer on demand SIX SHILLINGS, here or in DUBLIN, at No. 10, St. Andrew Street. in Notes of the BANK of IRELAND Malahide the 14th day of June 1804 For Richd Mogan Talbot and Edward Glascock SIX SHILLINGS |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing multiple handwritten endorsements in ink applied during circulation, and an embossed or blind-stamped circular seal visible at the upper left area. The surface shows evidence of heavy folding consistent with circulation use. |
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The Silver Bank at Malahide was one of dozens of small Irish country banks operating in the early nineteenth century under virtually no regulatory framework — the Irish banking system before the 1824 reforms was notoriously fragile, and provincial issuers like this one frequently collapsed within a generation of opening. A 6 shilling denomination is itself unusual; fractional shilling notes of this type were a pragmatic response to chronic coin shortages in rural Ireland, where silver and copper currency rarely circulated in sufficient quantity.
Richard Mogan Talbot's family connection to the Malahide estate adds a layer of local politics to what might otherwise seem a purely commercial instrument.