Jersey 1⁄13 shilling 1866 - Victoria

The coin's story

Jersey adopted the pound sterling in 1834, but French copper coins continued to circulate there, at 26 sous to the shilling. When the island struck its own copper coins in 1841, the local penny was therefore worth 2 sous, or 1/13 of a shilling. In 1866, this copper coin was replaced by a bronze version, struck only in 1866, 1870 and 1871. The obverse bears the diademed bust of Victoria by Leonard Charles Wyon, and the reverse the shield of Jersey with three leopards in an ornate cartouche. In 1866, 173,333 pieces were struck. In 1877, Jersey changed to 12 pence to the shilling as in the United Kingdom: these coins were demonetised on 31 December 1876 and replaced by the 1/12 shilling coin.