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1 Pound Colonial Bank, bank name in underprint
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1907-1912 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Supported royal arms vignette at upper centre, with the bank name in guilloche underprint across the centre field. The note carries a formal text promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of twenty shillings sterling, with issuing authority and place of payment at Kingston, Jamaica, rendered in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | COLONIAL BANK ONE POUND STERLING ONE POUND STERLING PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF TWENTY SHILLINGS STERLING KINGSTON BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE COLONIAL BANK ONE POUND STERLING JAMAICA |
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The Colonial Bank was a British overseas bank chartered in 1836 to serve the West Indies, operating branches across Barbados, Trinidad, British Guiana, and several smaller Caribbean islands. By the time this note was printed, the bank was already in the final chapter of its independent existence — Barclays absorbed it in 1925 along with the Anglo-Egyptian Bank and the National Bank of South Africa to form Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas).
Perkins, Bacon & Petch had been engraving security printing for colonial issuers since the mid-nineteenth century, and the underprint carrying the bank name was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure the firm employed across multiple Caribbean issues of this period. The S181 designation places this firmly in the colonial banking private issue category rather than a government-authorized emission.