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100 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937-1940 |
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| Currency | British Guiana Dollar (1837-1965) |
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| Obverse lettering | 100$ BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE TWENTY DOLLARS IN LOCAL CURRENCY ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 1ST. MARCH 1940 DEMERARA BRITISH GUIANA ACCOUNTANT MANAGER BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Ld. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND. HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE DIEU ET MON DROIT (Translation: Shamed be whoever thinks bad of it. God and my right.) |
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| Protection type | Perfin |
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Barclays Bank (DCO) occupied a peculiar position in colonial currency history — a private British commercial bank with the authority to issue legal tender across multiple territories, a function most countries had already transferred to central banks or government boards by the interwar period. These high-denomination notes were never intended for retail use; they moved between merchants, trading houses, and government accounts, which is why so few show any meaningful wear.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced the plates in New Malden to their usual exacting standard. The perfin security feature — holes punched through the paper in a pattern — was applied at the point of issue rather than during printing, making it a bank-level control, not a press-level one.