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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Purple intaglio on blue and orange guilloche underprint. The supported royal arms appear at right, with the branch designation 'ISSUED AT ST. VINCENT BRANCH' overprinted diagonally in red on both left and right margins. Serial number prefix of a single letter over two letters separated by a dot, followed by up to seven digits, appears at upper right and lower left; date of issue in black at lower left; head office designation 'BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS' in black at lower right; and a capital letter 'V' in the upper right field. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower left for the ACCOUNTANT and a printed signature at lower right for the MANAGER. |
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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 ISSUED AT ST. VINCENT BRANCH FIVE DOLLARS IN LOCAL CURRENCY BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS |
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Barclays DCO — the Dominion, Colonial and Overseas arm restructured from the Colonial Bank, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and National Bank of South Africa merger in 1925 — issued notes across a sprawling range of territories, which makes pinning down the precise issuing location for any given P#S106 example a legitimate cataloging problem. The 1939 date places production squarely in the months surrounding the outbreak of war, and Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was printing currency for numerous colonial issuers simultaneously during this period.
BWC engraved their own plates in-house, and the quality of intaglio work on DCO issues is consistently high — though that consistency is precisely what makes distinguishing territorial variants difficult without the overprint or payable-at text.