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| Twenty pound note |
Currency of Ireland £20 Pounds bank note 1980-1992 issue
Central Bank of Ireland - Banc Ceannais na hÉireann
Banknotes of the Republic of Ireland, Irish banknotes, Irish paper money, Irish bank notes, Irish paper money, Ireland banknotes, Ireland paper money, Ireland bank notes.Obverse: portrait of William Butler Yeats, the poet, dramatist, and mystic together with a representation of the mythological hero Queen Maebh, based on the motif used by the Abbey Theatre. The background is of a Deirdre, a Yeats manuscript.
Reverse: Map of the Blasket Islands, of County Kerry with the background of An tOileanach by Tomás Ó Criomhthain.
The dimension of the notes are 90 X 172 millimetres. The note consists of shades of blue - six shades on the front and four on the back.
Banknotes of the Republic of Ireland: Series B Banknotes
The Series B Banknotes of Ireland replaced the Series A Banknotes. The banknotes were issued between 1976 and 1982 by the Central Bank of Ireland, the series was replaced in 1993 by Series C Banknotes.
The Central Bank announced its intention for the new banknotes in December 1971 and Servicon, an Irish design company, was employed to design the notes of the denominations; £1, £5, £10, £20, £50 and £100. The £100 note was never issued or circulated; this remains somewhat of an idiosyncrasy in the issue of Irish banknotes as this is the only series without a note of this denomination.
The theme chosen for these notes was history of Ireland, and each note featured the portrait of a person with this theme in mind from a particular era from historic to modern and complementing visual elements. The female head painted by Sir John Lavery was retained from Series A; contained in the unprinted space. Each banknote has the signature of the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and the Secretary of the Department of Finance.
During much of the period of circulation of this series, foreign exchange controls prohibited the export of any notes larger than £20 from the Republic.