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1 Pound Jersey Banking Company.A.D.1828
| Issuer | Jersey Banking Company |
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| Year | 1863-1864 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Jersey coat of arms flanked by two allegorical figures: Britannia to the left and a female figure holding a sickle before wheat crops to the right. Text panel below carries the full promise-to-pay legend, issue date, and denomination in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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The Jersey Banking Company was established in 1816 and became one of the island's more durable private issuers, though it ultimately failed in 1873 — less than a decade after these notes were printed. The collapse wiped out a significant number of depositors and contributed to growing pressure for tighter regulation of Jersey's private banking sector.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were the dominant security printers of the mid-nineteenth century, responsible for the original Penny Black stamps and countless colonial and private bank issues. Their steel-intaglio work is identifiable by its characteristic fineness of line. The "A.D.1828" in the note's title almost certainly reflects the date of the original plate design or the company's reincorporation date, not the year of issue.