20 Dollars Barclay's Bank

Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was itself a relatively new entity in 1926, formed only in 1925 through the amalgamation of Colonial Bank, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa under the Barclays umbrella. Notes issued this early in the DCO's existence predate the institutional confidence it would later establish across British colonial territories, and high-denomination examples were rarely held by ordinary account holders — they moved between branches and larger commercial counterparties.

Bradbury, Wilkinson's New Malden facility was the dominant supplier of colonial and overseas banknotes for British-linked institutions throughout the interwar period, printing for dozens of issuing authorities simultaneously. Plate security and print quality were consistent, but attribution of specific DCO issues to precise print runs remains difficult without manuscript records.