l silver coins to the value of not
more than L10,000 of such amounts and design as they may consider most
suitable.

"On the 20th March, 1813, the silver coinage struck at the Royal Mint by
authority of the Lords of the Privy Council for circulation in the
island, being expected to arrive any day, which coins are of the value
some of 3s., some of 1s. 6d., and bear on one side the arms of the
island, and on the other their value--the States instructed their
Committee to take the necessary steps to put these coins into
circulation as soon as they arrive, and the States engaged to take back
the coins at their respective value, whenever it may become necessary,
after having given one month's notice, both by publication in the
several parishes and by advertisements in the local newspapers, to the
holders to bring the coins to the Treasurer of the States, and receive
the amount thereof."

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The Viscount of Jersey [Le Gros], in a letter dated Seafield, 19th
October, 1893, further informs me:--

"The result of the issue of these coins was that they were exported in
large quantities--to Guernsey especially, and, I am told, to Canada
also, where they were at a premium, passing, no doubt, as if of the same
value as English coins of the same denominations.

"These coins, or what remained of them in the island, were called in by
the States in 1834, in which year English money was declared the sole
legal tender."

The above-named two Jersey silver tokens read respectively:--

_O._ STATES OF JERSEY, 18 13 = The arms of Jersey--viz., _gules_,
three lions passant gardant _or._

_R._ THREE | SHILLINGS | TOKEN, in three lines, within a wreath of oak
leaves.

and

_O._ STATES OF JERSEY, 11 13 = the arms of Jersey.

_R._ EIGHTEEN | PENCE | TOKEN, in three lines, within a wreath of oak
leaves.

These silver tokens were the only coins of that metal ever struck for
the Channel Islands. The countermarked Spanish dollars, indented "Bishop
de Jersey and Co.," belong to Guernsey, and will be noticed together
with the other coins of that island.

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_, ol