Jersey livre

The consequent cross-border financial speculation caused by the discrepancy in coinage values was threatening economic stability.

The exchange rate was set at 24 livres = 1 pound, making the 2 sous coin equal to a British penny.

The last coins and notes of the livre currency system were issued in France in the Year II of the Republic (1794).

In 1840, a new copper coinage was introduced for Jersey, based on a penny worth 1⁄13 of a shilling in sterling coin, the equivalent of 2 sous.

On 7 February 1923 the States passed a law to ban the import of foreign copper coinage in sums exceeding 20 sous.

The Jersey newspaper Gazette de Césarée was priced at 3 sous in 1812
A page from a ready reckoner published in 1854 shows that conversions between Jersey currency, sterling and livres were still being carried out at that time