Jersey Banknotes 5 Pounds banknote 2010 Queen Elizabeth II
FIVE POUND - CINQ LIVRES - CHÎN LOUIS
Obverse: A mature portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II adapted from an official portrait taken at Sandringham House. The Queen is wearing The Grand Duchess Vladimir of Russia's Tiara. This tiara was inherited by the Grand Duchess's daughter, the Grand Duchess Helen who subsequently married Prince Nicholas of Greece. Queen Mary bought the tiara from Princess Nicholas in 1921. The tiara has fifteen pearl drops but Princess Mary had fifteen emeralds mounted in such a way that they are interchangeable with the pearls. In this illustration, Her Majesty is wearing the tiara with the pearl drops.
The Sky Blue £5 note depicts two important Jersey houses: the sixteenth century National Trust property ‘Le Rât Cottage’ on the front, and ‘Les Augrès Manor’, the home of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, on the reverse. The reverse also carries an image of Archirondel Tower at St Catherine’s Bay.
Watermark: Jersey cow, ‘5’ which appears as a highlight against the watermark.
See-Through Feature: map of Jersey.
Jersey Banknotes - Jersey paper money
2010
The designs for Jersey’s new set of bank notes highlight some of the best known examples of the island’s architecture, history and culture. The front of the notes features the traditional hand engraved intaglio portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, based on a photographic portrait by Mark Lawrence, with the words States of Jersey and the crest beneath. The central vignettes on both the front and reverse feature important Jersey landmarks.The reverse of each note carries the denominational value in numbers, in French and in Jersey’s language, Jèrrias, as well as the words États de Jersey and the twelve parish crests. The notes also feature hand engraved images of various Jersey Round Towers: these defensive towers were built around the coast between 1780 and 1800 to protect the island from invasion. Once protecting the shores of the island from attack in the Napoleonic wars, these towers are now monuments to a time gone by and are among the first landmarks encountered by visitors to the island.
Le Rât Cottage is typical of small Jersey houses of the early seventeenth century, of which very few remain unaltered. Built from pink granite, the cottage has three bays and two stories and was initially thatched, although in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century the roof was replaced with English pantiles. Facing south to make the most of the sun’s warmth, the cottage has chimney stacks rising from the gable ends.
In 1937 the property was sold to the National Trust for Jersey, which was founded the previous year.
Les Augrès Manor is an impressive 16th century manor house in Trinity, the grounds of which now house the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. The Trust has the mission of saving species from extinction and houses 1400 mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians in 32 acres of beautiful parkland. Since 1963, the manor house has been home to the Durrell family, including Gerald Durrell until his death in 1995.
Archirondel Tower, was built on an offshore rocky outcrop and was completed in 1794. Once the tower was built a permanent masonry gun platform was added around the base. It was the 22nd Jersey round tower to be completed and is larger than earlier ones. The rocky outcrop was joined to the rest of the island in the 1840s when work started on the proposed southern arm of St Catherine’s harbour. During the Occupation the tower was extensively altered by German forces, who removed the original stair, concreted the floors and modified the battery to mount machine guns.