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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937-1949 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Reverse description | Red print on a light blue guilloche underprint, with the British Royal coat of arms as the central vignette, flanked symmetrically by two ornate rosette panels each bearing the numeral 5. The bank's full title and former name, THE COLONIAL BANK, are inscribed in bold letterpress across the upper portion, with the incorporation references printed in small text along the lower margin. The overall design is enclosed within a decorative blue-printed border. |
| Reverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 $5 HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE DIEU ET MON DROIT (Translation: Shamed be the one who thinks ill of it. God and my right.) |
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Barclays DCO — formed in 1925 through the merger of Colonial Bank, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and National Bank of South Africa — issued this note through its Caribbean operations, where it functioned as a genuine circulating instrument rather than a mere traveller's convenience. Bradbury Wilkinson produced the series in London, a house well known for colonial and commercial bank work throughout the British Empire during this period.
The twelve-year date span reflects wartime interruption rather than steady unbroken issue — shipping disruptions and changed printing priorities during 1939–45 almost certainly compressed the actual years of active distribution.