1 Pound Jersey Bank - Hamon

P.H. Hamon operated one of several private banking houses active in Jersey during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, a period when the island's commercial needs outpaced any formal institutional banking infrastructure. These private pound notes circulated by reputation — the issuer's name was the guarantee, nothing more. Jersey had no central bank, no regulatory oversight of private note issuers, and no standard redemption mechanism if a house failed.

JN#91 is among the rarer survivals from this milieu. Most Hamon notes were redeemed and destroyed in the ordinary course of business, and the bank did not persist long enough to leave a substantial archival footprint.