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1 Pound Channel Islands Bank
| Issuer | Channel Islands Bank (Jersey) |
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| Year | 1858-1898 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse lettering | CHANNEL ISLANDS Bank. JERSEY_ 18_ We Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE POUND British Sterling Value received. Ent.d_ For Horman, Anthoine, Athier, LeGros & Co. ONE |
| Reverse description | Reverse left blank, without printed design or lettering. |
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The Channel Islands Bank was a private commercial bank operating in Jersey during the nineteenth century, one of several island institutions that issued their own notes independently of the Bank of England — a privilege that persisted in the Channel Islands long after similar rights had been extinguished on the mainland. The forty-year span of this issue reflects either a long print run from a single plate or successive reorders from Perkins, Bacon & Petch, who supplied engraved currency to dozens of colonial and private banks during this period.
Perkins, Bacon's steel-engraved plates were valued precisely because they were difficult to counterfeit, a concern that weighed heavily on small island banks with limited resources for detecting forgeries.