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1⁄52 Shilling - Victoria
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 1841-1861 |
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| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Young draped bust of Queen Victoria facing left, as designed by William Wyon, with hair gathered and coiled at the nape in a classically restrained style. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair braiding and drapery at the truncation. The date appears in the lower exergue below the bust. The encircling legend reads VICTORIA D: G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F: D:, inscribed in raised Latin characters around the full periphery of the obverse field. |
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| Reverse description | Central shield bearing the three leopards passant of Jersey — the arms of the island — displayed in three horizontal rows within a decorated cartouche featuring ornate scrollwork and foliate embellishments on either side. A floral or crown-like ornament surmounts the shield at the top. The circular legend STATES OF JERSEY. reading clockwise from the lower left and 1/52 OF A SHILLING. completing the inscription around the lower arc, both inscribed in raised Latin capitals within the beaded border. |
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Jersey's unusual 1/52 shilling denomination was a direct consequence of the island's pre-decimal currency system, in which the Jersey pound was divided into 26 sous, each worth 2 pence — giving 52 pence to the pound rather than the British 240. The denomination was designed to circulate alongside both French and British coinage already in common use on the island, where no single currency had ever fully dominated trade.
KM#1 is the founding issue of Jersey's modern coinage, authorized by Order in Council.