COPPER AND BRONZE COINAGES OF JERSEY FROM 1841.

The Viscount of Jersey [Le Gros] favours me with the following information:—

"In 1834 it was enacted that from the 1st October, in that year, English money alone should be legal tender in the island, and that the pound sterling should be considered equal to 26 livres, old French currency, which was, up to the date above given, currency of the island.

"There being 20 sous to the livre, and 20 shillings to the pound, a shilling became the equivalent of 26 sous. The value of the Jersey penny, or pièce de deux sous, therefore, became 1⁄13th of a shilling, the half-penny, or sou, 1⁄13th of a shilling, and the farthing, or pièce de deux liards, 1⁄52nd of a shilling."

As regards the above, in plain English we may call a livre a franc, a sou a half-penny, and a liard a half-farthing, as current in Jersey.

Sir C. W. Fremantle, Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint, has most kindly given me full particulars as to dates and amounts of actual supplies of copper coins to Jersey; and the Viscount of Jersey has furnished me with records of quantities ordered; thus collectors will now be able to judge as to rarity of the different issues, and also to know for certain when they may happen to meet with patterns or coins not sent to Jersey for circulation.

NUMBERS OF PIECES ISSUED.

Pence
(2 Sous)		 Half-Pence
(1 Sou)		 Farthings
(1⁄2 Sou).
Copper coins bearing date 1841. (The
order, dated 13th July, 1840, was to the
value of £1,000). These, and up to date,
1871 inclusive, were for 1⁄13th, 1⁄13th,
and 1⁄52nd.		 116,480 232,960 116,480
There was a further supply in 1844 27,040 232,960 —
On December 13th, 1850, there was an
order, to the value of £1,000, for copper
coins; but there is no record in the Royal
Mint that supply was made therefrom.
Still, both pence and half-pence of date,
1851, were supplied for currency, and are
still common.		 No record.
Copper coins of date, 1858 (ordered to
value of £2,000 on 15th October, 1857).		 173,333 173,333 —
Copper coins of date, 1861 173,333 173,333 —
Bronze coins of date, 1866, ordered to
value £2,000 under date 8th Dec, 1864.		 173,333 173,333 —
Ditto, ditto, 1870. In 1869 the old copper
issues were called in to be used for recoining
and re-issue as bronze coinage—as type
of late bronze coinage of 1866.
These re-coined issues were dated 1870
and 1871.		 173,333 173,333 —
Bronze coins of date, 1871 (in continuance
of last-named order).		 173,333 173,333 —
Bronze coins of date, 1877. These coins
were 1⁄12th, 1⁄24th, and 1⁄48th of a
shilling respectively, instead of being
1⁄13th, &c., as previously. On February
25th, 1876, the leading tradesmen of Jersey
had petitioned the States to this effect, and
the States ordered £2,000 of the new
denominations accordingly. At the same time,
the coins of former denominations were called
in. This new coinage was ordered through the
Royal Mint, but actually struck by Messrs.
Ralph Heaton, of Birmingham.		 260,000 312,000 312,000
Bronze coins of date, 1881. £260 worth
of bronze farthings of 1877, for which
there had been no demand in Jersey,
were sent back to the Mint, and re-coined
into pence, and thus re-issued.		 81,380 — —
Bronze coins of date, 1888. (£2,000 were
ordered, but only £1,000 supplied). In
1894 the remainder of the bronze coinage
ordered for Jersey in 1888 was supplied.
The value of this further supply, bearing
date 1894, was £750 in coins 1⁄12th of a
shilling, and £250 in coins 1⁄24th of a shilling.
The original "States" authority was of the
16th January, 1888, confirmed by Order
in Council dated 17th March, 1888.
The first half, £750 and £250 respectively
in denominations, had been re-coined in
September, 1888.		 195,000 130,000 —

The descriptive reading of the first copper coinage of Jersey is as follows, dates and values being altered as required—values issued being 1⁄13th, 1⁄26th, and 1⁄52nd of a shilling:—