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5 Pounds The States of the Island of Jersey
| Issuer | The States of the Island of Jersey |
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| Year | 1840 |
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| Printer | W. Adams |
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| Obverse lettering | BY THE STATES OF THE ISLAND OF JERSEY / FIVE POUNDS BRITISH STERLING / BEARING INTEREST of ONE HALF-PENNY per WEEK / Promise to pay the Bearer Five Pounds British Sterl.g together with an Interest of Two Shillings & Two pence on the 1st Sept.r 1841 / By Virtue of an Act of the States of the Island of Jersey of the 13th July 1840 / Jersey / MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE STATES. / TREASURER OF THE STATES. / W. ADAMS. Sc. |
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| Reverse lettering | JERSEY STATES' BOND for FIVE POUNDS BRITISH. |
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Jersey's currency issuance has always been an exercise in jurisdictional stubbornness — the island operates outside the United Kingdom proper, and its States assembly has periodically issued its own paper regardless of what London preferred. This 1840 note is among the earliest formal paper money the States produced, predating the more systematic series that emerged later in the century.
W. Adams as printer is not a well-documented commercial banknote house; the name suggests a local or regional jobbing printer rather than one of the established security printers of the period. That alone makes this note unusual — most contemporary island issuers of any ambition turned to London firms.
Pick A1 designation confirms this as the first catalogued Jersey States note.