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1 Pound St. Clement's Parish Bank
| Issuer | St. Clement's Parish Bank |
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| Currency | Pound (1813-1971) |
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| Obverse description | Jersey coat of arms vignette at left, flanked to the right by a vignette of the Parish Church of St. Clement. Letterpress text body carries the promise-to-pay obligation and date blanks, with ONE POUND BRITISH repeated as the principal denomination inscription. |
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| Obverse lettering | ST. CLEMENT'S PARISH BANK Promise to pay the Bearer on demand ONE POUND BRITISH Value received for the said Parish according to an act of the _ day of _ 18 Entd _ JERSEY _ 18 ONE POUND BRITISH |
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St. Clement's Parish Bank was one of the small Jersey parish banks operating in the nineteenth century, issuing notes backed by local landowner guarantees rather than any formal banking charter. These institutions occupied a legal grey area — Jersey's constitutional separation from the English banking system meant the Bank Charter Act of 1844 never applied, leaving parish-level note issue technically permissible long after it had been stamped out on the mainland.
JN#185 is among the rarer entries in the Jersey notes corpus. Documentation on St. Clement's is thin compared to the larger St. Helier issuers, and surviving examples are few.