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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1898-1912 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S141 |
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| Reverse description | Black print on plain paper. The design is dominated by a large horizontal oval guilloche at centre bearing the bank name, flanked by two smaller circular rosette guilloches. Above and below, two additional oval counters carry the numeral "5". Elaborate foliate scrollwork fills the corners and connects the central elements in a symmetrical composition. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 COLONIAL BANK 5 |
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The Colonial Bank operated across British Caribbean territories — Barbados, Trinidad, British Guiana, and others — before its eventual absorption into Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) in 1926. Notes of this series were printed in London by Perkins, Bacon & Petch, the firm responsible for a substantial share of British colonial currency work during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the same house that produced early postage stamps for numerous territories.
The fourteen-year span covering 1898 to 1912 suggests either multiple print runs or a long issue life — possibly both. Perkins, Bacon held the Colonial Bank contract through a period when the firm was transitioning its own identity, eventually dropping "Petch" from the name entirely.