Catalog
1 Pound Jersey
| Issuer | John James Guiton & Co. |
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| Year | 1811 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Jersey 1 POUND Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE POUND value rec. Jersey the _ day of _ 181 For John James Guiton & Co. ONE POUND Ent. |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, without any printed text, vignette, or decorative element. |
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John James Guiton & Co. was a private banking house operating in Jersey during the early nineteenth century, one of several local merchants who filled the vacuum left by the absence of any chartered bank on the island. Jersey had no Bank of England coverage and no local joint-stock institution until well into the Victorian period, so private tradesmen's notes like this one were the practical currency of daily commerce.
JN#87 places this firmly within Jersey Notaphily specialist cataloguing — these Guiton issues are among the rarest survivals of Channel Island private paper, with the firm's banking activities poorly documented even in local archive holdings.