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100 Dollars Colonial Bank
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Black and red on green guilloche underprint. The central field carries a handwritten-style script promise-to-pay legend, flanked at upper left and upper right by two red oval vignettes each inscribed ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, with the royal arms supported by lion and unicorn at centre top. The place of issue PORT OF SPAIN and the legend BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE COLONIAL BANK appear below the central text, with COLONIAL BANK arching across the top border and TRINIDAD along the bottom; the overprint SPECIMEN appears at lower centre with serial number placeholders at left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain red printed reverse with minimal design elements, serving as a security backing to the note, with the denomination numeral 100 appearing at left and right. |
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The Colonial Bank was a British overseas bank chartered in 1836 to serve the Caribbean, operating branches across Barbados, Trinidad, British Guiana, and several smaller islands. By 1907 the bank was in its final institutional decades — it was absorbed into Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) in 1926, taking its entire note-issuing history with it.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch had long been the default choice for colonial currency printing, their steel intaglio work considered difficult to counterfeit in regions where sophisticated forgery detection was limited. The watermark was essentially the primary security layer in daily use.