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1 Bristol Pound
| Issuer | Bristol Pound CIC |
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| Year | 2009-2015 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 ONE BRISTOL POUND £1 ISSUED BY BRISTOL POUND CIC, FULL TERMS AND CONDITIONS AT WWW.BRISTOLPOUND.ORG EXPIRY DATE SEPT 30TH 2015 ARTWORK CONTRIBUTED BY PHIL WEST |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Bristol Pound was a local complementary currency launched in 2012 by a community interest company in partnership with Bristol Credit Union, which held equivalent sterling reserves — making it one of the few such schemes in Britain with a regulated banking backstrate. The 2009–2015 date range reflects design development and pilot phases rather than a continuous issuing window. Notes were accepted by several hundred local businesses and, briefly, by the city council for payment of business rates — a rare instance of a UK local authority formally engaging with a parallel currency.
The scheme wound down in 2020. Print runs were modest and redemption rates low, leaving a reasonable number of unspent notes in circulation as souvenirs rather than currency.