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100 Dollars Colonial Bank
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Green and orange intaglio-printed note with an elaborate guilloche underprint across the entire field. The supported royal coat of arms, with lion and unicorn supporters, occupies the centre, flanked by ornate rosette vignettes in orange at left and right. The bank name arches across the top in large serif lettering, with the denomination spelled out in full along the lower portion, and the issuing location 'PORT OF SPAIN / TRINIDAD' at lower left; two manuscript signatures of the Accountant and Manager appear below the central vignette, with the imprint 'PERKINS, BACON & CO. LD. LONDON' at the base. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Colonial Bank operated across the British West Indies and British Guiana from its 1836 founding until Barclays absorbed it in 1925 — this 1919 note falls near the end of independent operations. Perkins, Bacon & Petch had a long relationship with colonial currency work, their intaglio plates producing the high-relief print quality that made forgery genuinely difficult in markets where detection expertise was limited.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference indicates a commercial bank issue rather than a government or central bank series — a classification that understates how central the Colonial Bank's notes were to everyday commerce in territories that had no other reliable paper currency.