£5 Gold Lavery Note Framed LTD Edition Ireland Irish Start Price USD 89.50 Current Price USD 89.50 Time Left 10 days 14 hours 33 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, October 03, 2008 End Time Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Location Dublin 24, Ireland See more about '£5 Gold Lavery Note Framed LTD Edition Ireland Irish' Description  Click here to view my full range of coins and bank notes on eBay £5 Gold Lavery Note Framed LTD Edition Ireland Irish  Click here to view my full range of coins and bank notes on eBay Framed Limited Edition Gold Lavery £5 note Limited Edition Gold Leaf note produced with special permission from the Irish Central Bank for Irish Collectables. This was originally a special offer in the Irish Times Newspaper and we have procured a small number of stock of this very scarce and collectable product The 'Lavery' £5 note had, like all the banknotes at the time, the portrait of 'Hazel Lady Lavery'. Lady Lavery was the wife of a famous banker and politician and was reputed also to be a secret lover of 'Michael Collin'. Lady Lavery was a renowned beauty of her time. The notes were designed by 'Mr John Harrison', a portrait engraver. All 'Lavery' notes depected a river mask on the reverse of the note. The 'River God Masks' were copies of the masks adorning the Customs House in Dublin. The five pound 'River Mask' is one of the River Lagan. All 'Lavery' notes were bi-lingual, English to the left and Irish (Gaelic) to the right. There were 159,250,000 of these notes issued, most were exchanged for the 'John Scotus Eriugena' £5 note which replaced the 'Lavery' note in 1977. Most of the remaining 'Lavery' notes were exchanged during the Euro changeover in 2001. Shipping & Handling (1.7kg Packet rate) Ireland: US$12.00  UK: US$16.00 Europe: US$16.00 USA / World: US$16.00 Specialising in Irish & Worldwide Stamps On Jul-24-08 at 13:48:50 PDT, seller added the following information: Sellers: Get your own map of past buyers. Fast. Simple. Place a Bid!