12th July 1963
Jersey gets its first ever local bank notes
When Jersey needed to raise funds, it came up with a profitable wheeze: it would issue its first ever peacetime banknotes.
Although it might sound like it was trying to create money out of thin air, the plan had a sound financial basis. It would, in effect, be producing a new product – a printed slip of paper that just happened to be a banknote – that locals would ‘buy’ with the existing mainland currency they held. This would happen quite naturally when shops and businesses gave them change in local currency after accepting mainland notes.
The banks would accept the mainland currency when the businesses paid it into their accounts and the States would swap it for more local currency, thus giving the States the funds it needed to invest in UK government securities which, over time, would earn a profit that would contribute to the island economy.
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Other events that occured in July
The Prince of Wales visits Jersey to open Howard Hall
- The Prince of Wales came to Jersey by boat so he could open the recently finished Howard Hall at Victoria College.
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Author and actor Anthony Faramus is born
- Anthony Faramus, who became an author and actor, was working as a hairdresser in St Helier when arrested early in the occupation.
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A dying man confesses to murder
- A dying man confessed to having killed a woman for which the victim's brother had earlier been tried, convicted, and hanged.
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Triple Cross opens in cinemas
- Triple Cross tells the story of Eddie Chapman who was arrested in Jersey during the occupation and became a triple agent.
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