100 Dollars British Guiana Bank

The British Guiana Bank was a short-lived commercial institution, and by 1900 it was already in its final years before being absorbed into the consolidating colonial banking structure of the region. Perkins, Bacon & Co. had long-standing experience producing security documents for British colonial issuers — their intaglio work appears on postage stamps and banknotes across the Empire — but a $100 denomination for a small colonial bank in Georgetown represents a high-value instrument with a very narrow probable circulation.

The perforated cancellation on surviving examples confirms these were formally withdrawn rather than worn out, which is typical of high-denomination colonial notes redeemed but not destroyed outright.