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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with the bank title 'BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK' across the top. A central royal coat of arms vignette is flanked by guilloche panels bearing the numeral '5' vertically. Lower left bears 'BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS' with a manuscript date of 1st September 1926 and two manuscript signatures at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Uniformly printed in green, the reverse carries the full bank title 'BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK' at top. A central royal coat of arms vignette is framed by symmetrical guilloche rosettes with numeral '5' counters on either side. The printer's imprint appears at the bottom edge. |
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Barclays Bank (DCO) was formed in 1925 through the amalgamation of Colonial Bank, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa — this note, issued just a year later, represents one of the earliest emissions under the newly consolidated brand. The DCO division operated as a semi-autonomous overseas arm, issuing its own currency instruments across British colonial territories, which is why these notes carry a private bank designation rather than a government one.
Bradbury, Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled much of the British colonial private bank work during this period. The single-watermark security on notes of this vintage is modest by later standards, and the cotton substrate was common to the whole DCO issue series of the 1920s.