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1 Pound Town Parish of St. Helier
| Uitgever | Town & Parish of St. Helier |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1858 |
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| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Rectangular |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | TOWN & PARISH OF ST. HELIER ONE POUND Promise to pay the Bearer on demand ONE POUND British Sterling under the guarantee of the Parish rate of ST. HELIER, by virtue of Acts of the Assembly of the said Parish, dated the 7th July and 11th August 1858. JERSEY, 25TH SEPTEMBER 1858. Procureur du Bien Public Constable of St. Helier. Perkins Bacon & Co London BRITISH. |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface with no design, text, or ornamental elements; show-through of the obverse serial numbers is faintly visible owing to the thinness of the paper stock. |
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| Opmerkingen |
St. Helier is one of the few parish-level authorities in the British Isles ever to have issued its own pound notes, a quirk of Jersey's constitutional autonomy that placed certain local fiscal powers outside the control of any central bank. The 1858 date puts this note in the transitional period before the States of Jersey consolidated island-wide currency arrangements — parish issues like this one were already anachronistic by the time they circulated.
Perkins, Bacon & Co. were simultaneously printing postage stamps for dozens of colonial administrations, and their security printing work for small jurisdictions often used shared plate infrastructure. The signatures of the Procureur du Bien Public and the Constable of St. Helier — both parish offices with Norman French roots dating to medieval customary law — were almost certainly applied by hand after delivery from London.