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1 Pound Bible Christian Church
| Issuer | Bible Christian Church, Jersey |
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| Year | 1872-1874 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | At top centre, a detailed architectural vignette of the Bible Christian Church at Royal Crescent, Jersey, rendered in engraved style with flanking wings, set beneath a scrolled banner bearing the institution's name; serial number fields reading 'No.' appear at upper left and upper right. The body of the note carries a promise-to-pay text in copperplate script, with a decorative cartouche at lower left enclosing the denomination 'One Pound' in bold letterpress, and manuscript fields for 'Payable at' and 'Ent.d' with a 'Treasurer' signature line at lower right. The note is uniface, printed in dark blue-green ink on grey paper. |
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| Obverse lettering | 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 TREASURER |
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The Bible Christian Church was a Methodist splinter denomination founded in Devon in 1815, and its Jersey congregation — never large — issued these notes during the early 1870s as a form of congregation-backed credit. Whether these functioned as genuine circulating promissory notes or as internal financial instruments for church members is not entirely settled. Jersey's long history of private and parish note issuance made such instruments legally ambiguous but practically tolerated.
Survival is extremely poor. A religious community of this size would have produced limited quantities, and redemption or destruction of remaining stock was the norm once the issuing body wound down its financial activities.