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1 Pound Parish of St. Peter
| Issuer | Parish of St. Peter, Jersey |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Parish of St. Peter. No. 748 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 | Blank. |
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Jersey's wartime occupation notes are well documented, but the Parish of St. Peter issues occupy a peculiar corner of that story. The German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940 forced local authorities — including individual parishes — to produce emergency currency when coin supplies dried up and Reichsmarks were being imposed in parallel. Parish-level issuance was an administrative oddity even by wartime standards, reflecting just how fragmented the emergency monetary response became across the island's twelve parishes.
Blades, East & Blades had a long history of printing financial documents and stationery in London, though the mechanics of how a London printer supplied occupation-era Jersey remain a detail worth scrutiny when examining any individual example.