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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 FIVE DOLLARS BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS GRENADA BRANCH 1ST SEPTEMBER 1926 BRADBURY WILKINSON & Co Ld ENGLAND |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse centres on the same intaglio Royal Arms vignette — two lion supporters flanking a crowned quartered shield with the motto DIEU ET MON DROIT on a ribbon below — set within a broad foliate guilloche surround. Solid numeral 5 rosettes appear at left and right within circular guilloche frames, while the bank name and former title are inscribed in large arched letterpress across the top. Incorporation and reincorporation legends appear below the central vignette, and the printer's imprint runs along the lower margin. |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was itself a relatively new entity in 1926, formed just four years earlier through the merger of Colonial Bank, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa. The DCO structure was explicitly designed to consolidate British commercial banking across the empire under a single balance sheet, and note-issuing rights in various territories came bundled with those absorbed institutions.
Bradbury Wilkinson's involvement is the technically interesting detail here. Their New Malden facility produced currency and security printing for dozens of colonial and dominion issuers simultaneously, which means the plate design and paper specifications would have followed their house standards rather than any local authority's brief.
The P#S106 prefix places this in Pick's commercial bank series — not a central bank issue.