1 Pound Barclays Bank

Barclays DCO operated as a quasi-central bank across much of British-administered Africa during the interwar years, issuing notes in territories where no sovereign currency authority yet existed. This series was printed by Bradbury Wilkinson — the same firm responsible for securities and stamps across the Empire — at their New Malden works, which gave the notes a quality and consistency that colonial treasury paper rarely matched.

The date range spans the outbreak of the Second World War, and notes issued after September 1939 circulated under conditions of wartime import restriction and currency control. Bradbury Wilkinson's records for this period were not always preserved, making precise print run data difficult to establish.