1 Pound Vingtaine du Mont au Prêtre

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.