5 Dollars

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.