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1 Pound Jersey Joint Stock Bank
| Issuer | Jersey Joint Stock Bank |
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| Year | 1860-1869 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a seated Britannia flanked by agricultural figures with a sailing vessel in the background; the Jersey coat of arms appears at the left margin and the denomination symbol £1 to the right. Letterpress text inscription runs along the lower portion of the note, carrying the promise-to-pay legend, place of issue, and date. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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The Jersey Joint Stock Bank was one of several private note-issuing banks operating on the island before the States of Jersey moved to consolidate currency authority in the later nineteenth century. It was not a long-lived institution, and notes from this period of its operation are genuinely rare — the bank's eventual failure meant redemption and destruction of outstanding stock rather than orderly retirement.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were among the most technically sophisticated security printers of the period, known for steel-engraved work and anti-counterfeiting lathe patterns developed from Jacob Perkins's original engine-turning patents. That pedigree matters here: a provincial Channel Islands bank commissioning London security printing was making a deliberate statement about trustworthiness to a skeptical local public.