10 Pounds, Central Bank of Ireland, 1993

This copy

Accession

OM-00178

Serial

HCJ 793708

Series year

1993

Actually issued

1993

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

One centre fold, otherwise clean. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$3 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

125.6 × 68.4 mm (±1.3, from the scan)

Themes

ModernLiteraturePre-euro

The type

Type

10 Pounds, Central Bank of Ireland, 1993

Portrait

James Joyce

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — in Irish and English

Banc Ceannais na hÉireann / Central Bank of Ireland

The Central Bank of Ireland

Symbology

Portrait of James Joyce

With a map of Dublin Bay behind him, and a passage of his own prose.

Writer rather than statesman

The Irish series of the 1990s put novelists and scholars on the currency in place of politicians.

What was happening

A circulating national banknote of the modern era: a central bank, a national portrait, and a currency backed by nothing but the institution that issues it — the arrangement every note earlier in this collection was either trying to establish or failing to maintain.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 10 Pounds, Central Bank of Ireland, 1993 in the collection.