1 Pound Ann Street Bank

The Ann Street Bank was one of several small private banks operating in Jersey during the early nineteenth century, a period when the island's ambiguous constitutional position meant it fell outside the Bank of England's monopoly on English note issue. Local merchants and traders could — and did — establish their own issuing banks, with predictably mixed results. Several of these institutions collapsed, leaving their notes worthless.

W. Adams engraved the plate locally. The long issue window spanning nearly a quarter century suggests the bank survived longer than many of its Jersey contemporaries, though the precise date of its failure or voluntary closure is not well documented in standard references.