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10 Pounds
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 1976-1988 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Reverse description | An intaglio panoramic vignette at left and centre presents Victoria College set on a hill, after the engraving by Felix Benoist, with figures in period dress on the grounds and framing trees completing the composition. The denomination "£10" appears at upper left within a guilloche panel, with "Ten pounds" in letterpress at lower right. A large circular guilloche rosette occupies the right portion of the note. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Queen Elizabeth II visible when held to light |
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Jersey's currency sits outside the UK sterling system in a specific legal sense — the island issues its own pound at par with sterling but under the authority of the States assembly, not the Crown via Westminster. This series, running across more than a decade, reflects the island's quiet but deliberate insistence on that distinction. De La Rue handled the printing throughout, as they had for Jersey issues going back well before the postwar period.
The Clennett and Leslie May dual-signature arrangement places this note within the tenure of Jersey's Treasury administration during a period of significant offshore financial expansion on the island — though the notes themselves circulated domestically alongside UK sterling without friction.