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1 Pound St. Brelade's Parish Bank
| Issuer | St. Brelade's Parish Bank |
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| Year | 1859 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | Jersey's coat of arms within a wreath vignette at centre, flanked by handwritten serial numbers in ornate calligraphic cartouches. The promise-to-pay text and denomination ONE POUND BRITISH are set in letterpress, with four securities' signatures at lower right and payable address at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | BRITISH STERLING ST. BRELADE'S PARISH BANK No. 139 No. 139 7th October 1859 JERSEY. We Promise to pay the Bearer on demand ONE POUND BRITISH. Value rec'd. Payable at No. 4 Cross Street FOR Dolbel, Le Montais & Co. ONE Securities { Elias Le Montais, George Dolbel, E Dolbel, Mat. Le Montais BRITISH STERLING |
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St. Brelade's Parish Bank was one of several short-lived parochial banks operating in Jersey during the mid-nineteenth century, issuing notes that circulated almost exclusively within their own parishes. These institutions operated with minimal oversight and no central bank backstop — when confidence faltered, they collapsed quickly. The JN reference system (Jersey Notes) is the standard attribution for island issues, though surviving specimens from the smaller parish banks are genuinely uncommon, most having been redeemed, destroyed, or simply lost when the issuing banks wound up.
1859 places this note in the final decade before Jersey's informal banking landscape was effectively consolidated under more formal arrangements.