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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 description | Letterpress-printed note in black on plain paper, enclosed within a fine engraved rectangular border. The upper left bears a heraldic lion passant within a cartouche, while the upper right carries a detailed vignette of a church and trees in an English pastoral style. The bank name "GROUVILLE PARISH BANK" is set in bold display lettering at the top centre, with "Bank" rendered in elaborate copperplate script beneath. The promise-to-pay text, denomination "ONE POUND BRITISH", place, and date of 24th December 1844 are manuscript-completed in ink, with the issuing firm noted as "Bertram, Noel & Company", payable at 8 King Street. Two handwritten signatures appear at the lower right. |
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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 |
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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.