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| 正面描述 | Red note with intricate guilloche underprint throughout. The bank title BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) is printed in bold across the upper portion, with the legend FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK below, flanked by incorporation notes. A royal coat of arms vignette appears at the right, while denomination panels reading TWENTY DOLLARS are positioned at the left and centre-bottom, with the promise-to-pay text and issue place BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS indicated at lower right. |
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| 正面铭文 | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE IN LOCAL CURRENCY TWENTY DOLLARS BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS ACCOUNTANT MANAGER |
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Barclays DCO occupied an unusual position in colonial banking — it was a commercial bank operating as a quasi-official currency issuer across multiple British territories simultaneously, with branch networks often substituting for central banking infrastructure that simply didn't exist. This note was printed at Bradbury, Wilkinson's New Malden works, one of the most technically accomplished security printers of the period, responsible for issues across dozens of territories during the interwar years.
The DCO series of 1937 predates the wave of post-war currency boards that would eventually strip commercial banks of their note-issuing rights throughout the British Caribbean and East Africa. By the mid-1950s, Barclays DCO had been pushed out of currency issuance almost everywhere it had operated.