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1 Pound Town Vingtaine of St. Helier
| Issuer | Town Vingtaine of St. Helier |
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| Year | 1850-1860 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | At upper centre, an oval intaglio vignette of St. Helier harbour with sailing vessels in the foreground and the fortified hilltop of Fort Regent rising behind the town. Numeral '1' counters in ornate guilloche rosettes flank the central vignette at left and right, with a further 'ONE' counter in a rectangular frame at lower left. The promise-to-pay text and denomination 'ONE POUND' are set in contrasting red letterpress against a fine engine-turned underprint, with 'BRITISH STERLING' in bold red Gothic script along the lower margin. Vertical border inscriptions run along both side margins, and the imprint 'Perkins Bacon & Co. London' appears in small type at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | RENEWED NOTE |
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The Town Vingtaine of St. Helier was a parish subdivision — a vingtaine being a Jersey administrative unit roughly analogous to a township ward — and its authority to issue notes of this kind was locally sanctioned rather than derived from any central banking framework. Jersey operated outside the Bank of England's orbit entirely, and small quasi-municipal issuers like this one filled gaps that larger institutions had no interest in serving.
Perkins, Bacon & Co. brought their steel-engraving expertise to the job, the same firm then producing postage stamps for the Crown. The S241 reference places this firmly in the experimental fringe of Channel Island private issuance — few of these circulated in volume, and survivorship is poor.