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1 Pound Guernsey Bank - Bishop de Jersey and Co.
| Issuer | Bishop de Jersey & Co. (Guernsey Bank) |
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| Year | 1809 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on plain paper, with the arms of Guernsey positioned at the left. The denomination ONE appears in large letterpress type at the lower left, with the remainder of the promissory text set in smaller type across the face. The issue date and payee name are entered by hand, with a manuscript signature applied at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Blank, unprinted. |
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Bishop de Jersey & Co. operated the Guernsey Bank from around 1797, making it one of the earliest private banking ventures on the island. This 1809 pound note predates any formal banking regulation on Guernsey by decades — the island's financial sector remained largely outside the reach of British mainland legislation well into the nineteenth century, a consequence of Guernsey's distinct constitutional position as a Crown dependency rather than a part of the United Kingdom.
Private bank failures across Britain and Ireland in the 1820s and 1830s wiped out countless issuers of this type, and surviving examples from small Channel Island private banks are genuinely rare. Bishop de Jersey & Co. itself did not survive the century.