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1 Pound 1921 Overprint
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Perkins, Bacon & Petch (Perkins, Bacon and Co.), United Kingdom (1820-1935) |
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| Obverse lettering | The States of Guernsey Guernsey PROMISE to pay the BEARER on demand ONE POUND value received by authority of the states ONE POUND |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue, with the Jersey Arms at centre surrounded by an elaborate guilloche pattern. |
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Guernsey's wartime emergency issues were printed by Perkins Bacon under considerable constraint, and P#9A is among the more complicated pieces in the series to date accurately. The note carries a 1921 overprint applied to a 1919-dated base — an administrative extension of an issue that had outlived its original authorisation rather than a fresh printing. Perkins Bacon had long supplied the island's currency needs, and the relationship predated the German occupation concerns of the following generation by decades.
The overprint practice reflects how thinly staffed the States Treasury remained in the immediate postwar period, with full redesigns deferred in favour of amended existing stock.