Catalog
1 Pound Jersey Bank - Burnell & Bristol
| Issuer | Jersey Bank (Burnell & Bristol) |
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| 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.