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1 Pound St. Saviour's Bank
| Issuer | St. Saviour's Bank, Jersey |
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| Year | 1832 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | At upper left, an engraved vignette of St. Saviour's Church rendered in fine letterpress; at upper right, a vignette of the Jersey arms with a rampant lion. The bank title 'St. Saviour's Bank' is set in bold script at the top centre, with the promise-to-pay text and denomination 'ONE POUND' in manuscript and printed letterpress across the face. A large counter-printed 'ONE' underprint occupies the centre, with manuscript date, serial number, and signature applied by hand; this is a uniface note with the reverse left blank. |
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| Obverse lettering | ST. SAVIOUR'S BANK WE PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE POUND VALUE RECEIVED ACCORDING TO AN ACT OF THE SAVIOUR'S PARISH JERSEY |
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St. Saviour's Bank was one of several short-lived parish banks that emerged in Jersey during the early 1830s, operating outside the oversight structures that governed mainland British banking. The island's constitutional separation from Westminster meant these institutions existed in a regulatory grey zone — no equivalent of the 1826 Country Bankers Act applied here. St. Saviour's collapsed within a few years of opening, and the notes were never redeemed in full.
Survivors are rare precisely because so little circulated before the bank failed. P#S346 is among the more elusive Jersey private issues of the period.