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1 Pound Parish of St. Peter
| Issuer | Parish of St. Peter |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse lettering | Parish of St. Peter. No. 778 By Virtue of an Act of the Parochial Assembly dated the _ day of _ 189_ I Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE POUND Sterling. Jersey, this _ day of _ 189_ Ent'd_ £One |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse with no design elements, text, or ornamentation. |
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The Parish of St. Peter notes are among the most localized forms of emergency paper credit produced in the British Isles — issued at the parish level rather than by any banking or governmental authority. These hyper-local instruments typically emerged during periods of coin shortage, when small communities had no practical access to change and merchants or vestries stepped in to fill the gap with promissory paper backed by nothing more than local trust.
Without confirmed dates or issuing officer details on record, pinning this to a specific coin famine is difficult. The Johnsen reference confirms authenticity of type, but documentation for St. Peter parish issues remains thin.