A costly Ploughman

The first tranche from a large collection of Irish banknotes assembled by the late Gus Mac Amhlaigh of Dublin sold by DNW on November 25 included red and orange Bank of Ireland £20 ‘specimen’ notes from the famous Ploughman series.

These were issued by the Currency Commission of Ireland as a transitional measure for eight Irish …

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