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5 Pounds Bible Christian Society
| Issuer | Bible Christian Society, Jersey |
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| Year | 1870-1879 |
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| Currency | Pound (1813-1971) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on tan paper, the note bears the issuer title in decorative lettering at top, with the denomination 'FIVE POUNDS' rendered in large script. The body carries a formal promise-to-pay text arranged in typeset lines, with spaces left for manuscript completion of date and payable location, and signature lines at foot for the Treasurer and Minister. |
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| Obverse lettering | BIBLE CHRISTIAN SOCIETY JERSEY FIVE I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER THE SUM OF FIVE POUNDS ON THE BY VIRTUE OF A RESOLUTION OF THE TRUSTEES AT MEETING HELD PAYABLE AT |
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The Bible Christian Society of Jersey was not a bank in any conventional sense — it was a Methodist denomination that issued notes as a fundraising and community finance mechanism, a practice tolerated in Jersey under the island's distinct legal and monetary framework that kept it outside the Bank of England's regulatory reach well into the late nineteenth century. That autonomy allowed non-banking institutions on the island to issue paper instruments that would have been flatly illegal on the English mainland.
P#S126 is poorly documented in the major references, and authenticated surviving examples are extremely rare. Treat any attribution of printer or precise circulation figures with skepticism.