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1 Pound
| Issuer | St. Saviour's Bank |
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| Year | 1832 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | S. SAVIOUR'S BANK Promise to Pay the Bearer in demand ONE POUND Value received Jersey 1832 Payable at M. Pillot, 3 Hatter Place |
| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, printed on unadorned cotton paper with no central vignette or major printed design. The surface shows age-related foxing and craquelure consistent with early nineteenth-century paper stock, with only faint manuscript notations visible. |
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St. Saviour's Bank was one of several short-lived parish banks that emerged in Jersey during the early nineteenth century, operating outside the formal regulatory structures applied to banks on the British mainland. These institutions were deeply local affairs — often undercapitalized, dependent on personal trust rather than institutional backing, and frequently short-lived. St. Saviour's is among the lesser-documented of the group, which makes surviving notes genuinely rare archival objects rather than simply scarce collector pieces.
Jersey's insular legal status meant these notes circulated in a monetary environment that mixed sterling, French currency, and locally issued paper with little central oversight.