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1 Pound St. Mary's Parochial Bank
| Issuer | St. Mary's Parochial Bank |
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| Year | 1850-1901 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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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. MARYS ONE BRITISH |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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St. Mary's Parochial Bank was one of the last surviving Irish private note-issuing institutions operating under the pre-1845 framework that had, in theory, been designed to phase out exactly these kinds of small local issuers. The bank continued issuing long past the point where most of its contemporaries had surrendered their rights, a tenacity that kept notes of this type circulating in limited regional use well into the late Victorian period.
The Pick S-prefix designation places this firmly in the specialized Irish provincial banking category. Survivors are uncommon — not because the series was short-lived, but because rural Irish paper money of this period was worked hard and rarely preserved.