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1 Pound Jersey Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Jersey Commercial Bank |
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| Year | 1856 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette displays the Jersey coat of arms on a shield set before a fouled anchor, with a sailing vessel rendered in the background. Printed text legends appear below the vignette, including the issuing bank name, promise-to-pay clause, and denomination. A black SPECIMEN overprint stamp is applied to the lower right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Jersey Commercial Bank Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE POUND BRITISH; Sterling ST. HELIERS, the _ day of _ 18_ N. Ent. For Janvrin, Durell & Company ONE POUND BRITISH SPECIMEN. |
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The Jersey Commercial Bank had a short and troubled existence — it collapsed in 1873 after a run on deposits triggered by wider financial instability in the Channel Islands banking sector. Notes from this institution are genuinely rare survivors of a failed private bank, not a government issue, which means no central redemption program preserved examples in archive holdings.
The 1856 date places this note in the bank's earlier, more solvent years, roughly two decades before the collapse. Private sterling-denominated notes from Jersey issuers of this period were never legal tender in the formal sense — their acceptance depended entirely on public confidence in the specific institution.