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5 Dollars Colonial Bank
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | COLONIAL BANK $5 ISSUED AT ST. KITTS BRANCH $5 WE PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF FIVE DOLLARS BRIDGETOWN BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE COLONIAL BANK FIVE DOLLARS BARBADOS |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and carries a simple, typographic layout centred on the denomination numeral 5 flanking the bank name COLONIAL BANK, with little additional ornamentation, consistent with the restrained design conventions of early twentieth-century British colonial currency. |
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The Colonial Bank operated across the British West Indies and British Guiana from its founding in 1836, holding a near-monopoly on colonial banking in several territories for decades. By 1907 it was already in the late stages of its independent existence — Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) absorbed it in 1925 along with two other Caribbean banks in a consolidation that wiped the Colonial Bank name from circulation entirely.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were the dominant security printers for British colonial currency throughout this period, their intaglio work largely responsible for the visual continuity across otherwise quite different issuing authorities. The P#S111 designation places this note in the specialized rather than general circulation series — worth noting for attribution purposes.