100 Dollars

Barclays Bank DCO occupied an unusual position in colonial banking: a British commercial bank issuing currency with quasi-official status across multiple territories simultaneously. This $100 denomination would have circulated at a level almost exclusively relevant to large commercial transactions — not street-level trade — and the date range spanning 1937 to 1949 crosses the entire Second World War, during which Barclays DCO maintained operations across its African and Caribbean networks despite severe shipping disruptions and import restrictions on paper stock.

Bradbury, Wilkinson printed the series from their New Malden works, which by this period had decades of colonial currency experience behind them. High-denomination notes of this type were frequently cancelled and retained by the issuing bank rather than destroyed outright, making genuinely circulated survivors rarer than the issue volumes might suggest.