100 Dollars Barclays Bank

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.