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1 Pound Vingtaine du Mont au Prêtre
| Issuer | Vingtaine du Mont au Prêtre |
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| Year | 1838 |
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| Reference(s) | JN#240.1 |
| Obverse description | A tall engraved vignette of a tree or plant motif occupies the left margin. The upper portion of the note carries the issuer's name in bold gothic script, with serial numbers hand-written at upper left and right. The centre bears the large letterpress word BRITISH overlaid by the hand-written promise text reading "Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE POUND, Value received", the place and date "Jersey the 7 day of De 1838, Charles Street, St. Helier's", and a manuscript signature at lower right. A rectangular panel at lower left carries the denomination ONE POUND in engraved letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | VINGTAINE Du Mont au Prêtre Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand ONE POUND Value received Jersey Charles Street St. Helier's ONE POUND BRITISH |
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The Vingtaine du Mont au Prêtre was one of several Jersey parish subdivisions that issued their own paper money during the first half of the nineteenth century — a genuinely unusual arrangement reflecting Jersey's highly localized administrative structure, where vingtaines functioned as civil units below the parish level. That a body of such limited geographic scope could issue circulating currency is the real curiosity here.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch brought their patented siderographic steel-engraving process to this note, the same anti-counterfeiting technology they were supplying to colonial governments and early postal authorities across the British Empire at the time.