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1 Pound St. Mary's Parochial Bank
| Issuer | St. Mary's Parochial Bank |
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| Year | 1850-1859 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of St. Mary's Church set within a landscape, flanked at left and right by heraldic arms within ornamental frames. The denomination ONE appears in a panel at lower left, with the large word BRITISH as an underprint across the centre of the note. Signatures lines for the Procureur du Bien Public and the Constable of St. Mary's appear at lower centre and lower right respectively. Uniface. |
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| Obverse lettering | ST. MARY'S PAROCHIAL BANK PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE POUND VALUE RECEIVED BY VIRTUE OF AN ACT OF THE SAID PARISH JERSEY Procureur du Bien Public Constable of St. Mary's |
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Parochial banks in mid-nineteenth century Ireland occupied an awkward legal position — they were not chartered institutions and operated largely on the authority of local clergy and community trust rather than formal statute. St. Mary's Parochial Bank, almost certainly Dublin-based given the parish dedication, issued notes at a moment when the aftermath of the Great Famine had gutted rural financial confidence and the Banking Acts of 1845 had already begun consolidating legitimate note-issuing privileges among a shrinking number of authorised banks.
The Pick reference S327 places this firmly in the specials/local issues category. Surviving examples are rare — parochial issues of this type had extremely limited distribution and were frequently redeemed quickly or simply lost without systematic archival recording.