1 Pound Channel Islands Bank

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.