1 Pound Jersey Bank - Burnell & Bristol

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.