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1 Pound Jersey Bank - Burnell & Bristol
| Issuer | Jersey Bank (Burnell & Bristol) |
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| Year | 1815 |
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| Currency | Pound (1813-1971) |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned note printed in black letterpress on aged laid paper, with the issuer's title "Jersey Bank" rendered in large copperplate script across the upper portion, flanked by manuscript serial number fields. To the left, a engraved vignette of an oval cartouche enclosing the denomination "ONE POUND" in bold letterpress, surrounded by a wreath of laurel branches tied at the base with crossed stems. The body of the note carries the standard bearer promise clause in copperplate script, completed in manuscript with the date and place of issue, with the partners' signatures of Burnell & Bristol at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Burnell and Bristol |
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Jersey Bank, operating under the Burnell & Bristol partnership, was one of several private banking concerns issuing their own paper currency on the island in the early nineteenth century — a period when no central or government-backed note issue existed for Jersey. These private issues circulated on the personal credit of the partners themselves, not any institutional guarantee.
JN#104 is among the rarer survivals from this era of island private banking. Most notes of this type were redeemed and destroyed as the partnerships dissolved or were absorbed. A signed example in any condition is a genuine archival piece.