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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1931-1954 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print on a light ground. A central circular vignette carries the bank's arms, depicting a sailing ship within an ornamental ring bearing the full bank title BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS). The vignette is surrounded by intricate guilloche lacework borders, with denomination numerals '10/-' repeated at the corners and trilingual value inscriptions across the lower panel. |
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| Variants | P#1a - 01.06.1931 P#1b - 01.05.1943 & 01.04.1949 P#1c - 02.01.1951 & 31.07.1954 |
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Barclays Bank DCO operated as a commercial bank rather than a government institution, which makes this issue unusual — private bank notes circulating as de facto currency were already rare by the 1930s, and Barclays DCO maintained this privilege in certain territories where no central bank yet existed to take over the function. The long date range reflects serial reissue across multiple territories rather than a single continuous print run.
Waterlow & Sons had an extensive colonial currency portfolio at this period, printing for dozens of territories simultaneously from their London works. Their intaglio work on private bank paper from this era is generally reliable, though Barclays DCO notes are notoriously difficult to attribute to specific issuing territory without the overprint or branch designation present on the note itself.