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These are pound sterling notes and equal in value to Bank of England notes, and should not be confused with banknotes of the former Irish pound. The Bank of Ireland does not issue banknotes in the territory of the Republic of Ireland; until the Republic joined the euro in 1999, the only note-issuing bank there was the Central Bank of Ireland.
With a conversion factor of 0.787564 Irish pounds to the euro, of the 15 national currencies originally tied to the euro (also including the currencies of Vatican City, Monaco and San Marino [8]), the Irish pound was the only one whose conversion factor was less than 1, i.e. the unit of the national currency was worth more than one euro. 56% ...
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The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO 4217 currency code: GBP) is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Tristan da Cunha.
Of these denominations, only the 1 pound has ceased to be issued by all banks, with the last produced by the Allied Irish Banks in 1984. The 5 pound note is only issued now by Bank of Ireland and Ulster Bank, and Northern Bank stopped issuing notes over £20 when it was rebranded as Danske Bank.
A 5 Pound note issued by the private banking firm of Gibbons & Williams in Dublin, Ireland (1833). Ireland has a history of trading its own banknotes for several centuries, both when the whole of Ireland was one legal entity, and following partition of the island into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The official currency in use in Northern Ireland is the British pound sterling. The euro, in use in the Republic of Ireland, is also accepted by some retailers. Four Northern Irish banks print their own sterling-denominated banknotes: Bank of Ireland, First Trust Bank, Danske Bank, and Ulster Bank. The central bank of the UK is the Bank of England.