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| 表面の説明 | The obverse is printed in blue-green ink on plain paper. At the top centre, a vignette of a classical colonnaded building is framed by a decorative cartouche bearing the inscription BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, with note numbers at upper left and right. Below the vignette, the text ROYAL CRESCENT JERSEY appears in letterpress, followed by a handwritten-style promise-to-pay legend in script reading "I Promise to pay the Bearer on demand One Pound British Sterling, value received, Under the guarantee of the Trustees of the above Church", with a rectangular panel at lower centre inscribed ONE POUND and spaces for payable-at location, entry, and Treasurer signature at foot. |
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| 表面の銘文 | BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ROYAL CRESCENT JERSEY. I Promise to pay the Bearer on demand One Pound British Sterling, value received Under the guarantee of the Trustees of the above Church One Pound Payable at Entd Treasurer |
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The Bible Christian Church was a Wesleyan Methodist splinter movement founded in Devon in 1815, and had no business issuing banknotes. Yet Jersey's particular legal position — outside the Bank of England's jurisdiction and with its own loosely regulated financial environment in the nineteenth century — created space for exactly this kind of quasi-banking activity by non-financial institutions. The church apparently operated a deposit and lending function for its congregation, and these notes were its paper instruments.
The series ran only two years before collapsing. Whether that reflects regulatory pressure, insolvency, or simple abandonment of the scheme is not clearly documented.