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100 Dollars Barclays Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Size | 150 × 84 mm |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in dark brown and red on a green-tinted guilloche underprint, with the supported Royal Arms vignette at centre, flanked by elaborate red rosette medallions bearing the denomination numeral "100" at left and right. The bank title arches across the top in bold letterpress, with the promise-to-pay clause and incorporation notices in smaller text to either side of the arms. The denomination "ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS" appears in a recessed panel below the arms, with "DEMERARA / BRITISH GUIANA" at lower left, a serial number at lower right, and the date "1ST APRIL 1932" beneath it; signature lines for Accountant and Manager appear at bottom centre, printed by Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd., England. |
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| Reverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 BRADBURY WILKINSON & CO. ENGRAVERS SURREY |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was itself a product of the 1925 amalgamation of three separate colonial banking institutions — the Colonial Bank, the Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa — giving it a sprawling remit across British territories that few commercial issuers could match. A 100 Dollar note from this institution raises an immediate geographic question, since Barclays DCO operated in East Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere simultaneously, each jurisdiction with its own dollar or sterling variant.
Bradbury Wilkinson engraved and printed for dozens of colonial issuers through this period. The S103S suffix in the Pick reference designates a specimen, which is the only form in which most Barclays DCO high-denomination issues from the early 1930s are documented to survive.