1 Shilling German Occupation

Jersey's wartime notes are among the very few examples of German-occupied British territory issuing currency under the occupier's authority while retaining explicitly local identity. The 1 Shilling was printed on the island itself under constrained wartime conditions — not shipped to a mainland printer — which accounts for the modest production quality relative to pre-war British colonial issues.

Blampied was a celebrated Jersey-born etcher and illustrator, not a banknote engraver by trade. His involvement gave the series an unusually artistic character for an emergency occupation issue. The German authorities approved the designs, a detail that makes the notes an odd artifact: locally conceived, enemy-sanctioned, British in denomination.