Timeline

• 22.05.1729
• Law on the adoption of the French currency ordinance of 26.05.1726, making the French Livre the unit of account; effective 25.08.1730:
  - Rating of the British Crown of 5 Shillings (silver) at 3¹¹⁄₂₀ French Livres (= 71 Sols).
• 1811-1814
• During the cash shortage in the early 19th century, numerous copper tokens were issued by merchants and local banks as in the whole of Great Britain.
• 18.11.1812
• Parliamentary resolution on the issuance of silver tokens of 3, 1½ Shillings (= 3³⁄₅, 1⁴⁄₅ French Livres) by the government; effective immediately (royal assent on 12.12.1812)

Timeline

• 18.09.1834
• Parliamentary resolution on the switch to British accounting and the demonetization of all circulating coins; effective 01.10.1834 (royal assent of 24.06.1835)
• 13.07.1840
• Parliamentary resolution on the issuance of copper subsidiary coins of ¹⁄₁₃, ¹⁄₂₆, ¹⁄₅₂ Shillings to ease the transition from the Livre accounting; effective immediately (royal assent on 11.09.1840) and issuance started on 12.11.1841
• 25.02.1876
• Parliamentary resolution on the issuance of copper subsidiary coins of ¹⁄₁₂, ¹⁄₂₄, ¹⁄₄₈ Shillings (replacing the coins denominated in 13th of the Shilling, which were not demonetized); effective 24.03.1876 (royal assent of 18.04.1876) and issuance started on ??.??.1877
• 07.02.1923
• Parliamentary resolution on the demonetization of the French subsidiary coins of 10, 5 Cents; effective 24.08.1923 (royal assent on 07.04.1923):
  - They were withdrawn until 08.09.1923 and exchange into 1, ½ Penny.
• 1940-1945
• German occupation of the Channel Islands:
  - 07.08.1940: Ordinance, declares German banknotes and coins legal tender (on 15.08.1940 extended to the Reichskreditkassen); effective immediately
  - 03.09.1940: Rating 1 Guernsey Pound = 9.60 German Reichsmark
  - 29.09.1942: Rating 1 Guernsey Pound = 9.36 German Reichsmark
  - 08.05.1945: Demonetization of the occupation money and exchange at a rate of 1 Pound = 10 German Reichsmark; effective 23.05.1945.
• 28.04.1959
• Law [Currency Notes (Jersey), No. 17] on the issuance of government paper money by the Treasury; effective 05.09.1959 (royal assent on 28.07.1959)
• 1968-1971
• Decimalization of the sub-unit
  - 27.11.1968: Law [Decimal Currency (Jersey), No. 7] on the decimalization of the sub-unit; effective 16.05.1969 (royal assent on 23.04.1969)
  - 15.12.1970: Law [Decimal Currency (Jersey), No. 4] on the implementation of the 1969 Decimal Currency Law and the issuance of local subsidiary coinage; effective 12.02.1971 (royal assent on 10.02.1971)
  - 15.02.1971: Start of issuance of the decimal subsidiary coins denominated "New Pence", the non-decimal (British) coins were not demonetized
  - 13.11.1979: Law [Decimal Currency (Amendment No. 2) (Jersey), No. 11], abolishes the "New" from the coin denominations; effective 06.06.1980 (royal assent on 21.05.1980).

Valuation Regimes

• 1834-
• Fixed rate against British Pound