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1 Pound Guernsey Commercial Banking Company Limited
| Issuer | Guernsey Commercial Banking Company Limited |
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| Year | 1914-1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GUERNSEY COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY. LIMITED. We Promise to Pay the Bearer on Demand ONE POUND Value received. For the GUERNSEY COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED. One Pound |
| Reverse description | Reverse is plain and unprinted. |
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The Guernsey Commercial Banking Company had a short and troubled existence, absorbed by the National Provincial Bank well before this note was issued — which makes the issuer name itself something of an anachronism. By 1914, the company was operating in a kind of institutional afterlife, and the outbreak of war that summer created acute demand for small-denomination paper across the Channel Islands as coin disappeared from circulation almost immediately.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were the obvious choice for any British colonial or semi-autonomous issuer wanting security printing of proven quality. The firm's intaglio work is recognizable to anyone who has handled their output.