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1 Pound Jersey Bank - Burnell & Bristol

Issuer Jersey Bank (Burnell & Bristol)
Year 1815
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Value 1 Pound
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Reverse description Reverse is blank, with no printed or manuscript text, consistent with private banking practice of the early nineteenth century.
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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.

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