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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937-1940 |
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| Currency | British Guiana Dollar (1837-1965) |
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| Obverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE FIVE DOLLARS IN LOCAL CURRENCY DEMERARA BRITISH GUIANA B.G. BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO. LD. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
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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. BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO. LD. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) — the name itself maps the bank's ambitions — was a 1925 amalgamation of Colonial Bank, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa, with Barclays absorbing the whole structure. The DCO designation gave it issuing rights across a remarkable spread of territories, and notes of this series were produced for multiple jurisdictions from a single Bradbury, Wilkinson operation in Surrey.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference indicates this is catalogued as a private or commercial bank issue rather than a central authority emission — a distinction that mattered less in the colonial banking world, where DCO branches often functioned as the de facto monetary institution in territories lacking a government note issue.