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1 Pound Jersey - Jas Le Couteur
| Issuer | Jas Le Couteur, Jersey |
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| Year | 1816-1817 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | To the left, an intaglio-engraved vignette by G. Hamon bears the Jersey coat of arms surrounded by trade goods including barrels and a cask, with a sailing vessel and a Union flag in the background. Below the vignette, a bold letterpress panel reads '£ One' in ornate script. The entire text area to the right is rendered in flowing copperplate calligraphy, carrying the promise-to-pay legend, the place and date of issue, and the manuscript signature of the issuer; serial numbers appear in the upper left and upper right corners. |
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| Signature(s) | Jas Le Couteur |
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Jersey's early nineteenth-century private note issuance was exceptionally fragmented — dozens of merchants, traders, and individuals put out their own paper, with no central bank and no formal regulatory framework. Jas Le Couteur was among this loose cohort of private issuers operating in the 1816–1817 window, a period of acute economic stress in the Channel Islands following the post-Napoleonic contraction of trade.
G. Hamon engraved the plate locally, which makes this a fully Jersey-produced note — unusual for the period, when most issuers elsewhere sought London engravers for credibility.