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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank

Issuer Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas)
Year 1937-1939
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Shape Rectangular
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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 IN LOCAL CURRENCY ISSUED AT ST LUCIA BRANCH
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Reverse lettering BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) — the DCO — was the product of a 1925 amalgamation designed to consolidate Barclays' far-flung colonial operations under a single corporate umbrella. This note was issued through that structure during a period when DCO branches across British territories in Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere operated with considerable operational independence, placing notes into local circulation that were backed by London but managed regionally.

Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was the standard high-security printer for much of Britain's colonial note output in this period. The P#S111 designation — "S" for Specialized — reflects its status outside mainstream central bank cataloguing.

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