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1 Pound Grouville Parish Bank
| Issuer | Grouville Parish Bank |
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| Year | 1844 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse lettering | GROUVILLE PARISH BANK / We Promise to pay the Bearer on demand ONE POUND BRITISH Value received / for Bertram, Noel & Company / Jersey 24th December 1844 Payable at 8 King Street / One Pound |
| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted, the reverse presents a plain paper surface with no typeset or engraved design elements. Scattered manuscript notations and numerals in ink and crayon are visible, consistent with contemporary accounting endorsements. |
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Grouville is one of Jersey's twelve parishes, and parish banking in the island operated entirely outside the regulatory frameworks governing English joint-stock banks — these institutions answered to parish authorities, not to London. The Grouville Parish Bank was among the smaller such issuers, and its notes circulated almost exclusively within the parish itself, accepted on the basis of local trust rather than formal financial backing.
Jersey parish bank notes from the 1840s are genuinely rare survivors. Paper attrition was high, redemption rates were low, and few institutions of this type kept systematic records of surviving stock.