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100 Dollars Barclays Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio on purple and multicoloured underprint. The supported royal arms vignette is positioned at right within an ornate frame, set against intricate guilloche patterning. The bank's full corporate title, place of issue (Port of Spain, Trinidad), and the promise-to-pay legend are letterpress-printed across the face, with the denomination expressed in both words and numerals. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface green intaglio print on plain paper. The supported royal arms are centrally placed within an ornate cartouche, flanked by large guilloche rosettes bearing the denomination numeral. The bank's corporate title arcs across the top, with incorporation references below the arms and the Bradbury Wilkinson printer's imprint at the foot. |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was a commercial bank, not a central bank — its authority to issue notes derived from colonial banking legislation, not from any sovereign mandate. The $100 denomination would have been a high-value instrument, almost certainly used for interbank settlement or large commercial transactions rather than everyday exchange, which goes some way toward explaining why surviving examples in any condition are uncommon.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was still operating under wartime production pressures in 1940, printing security documents for territories across the British Empire while simultaneously handling government contracts closer to home.