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20 Dollars Colonial Bank
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | COLONIAL BANK PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 TWENTY DOLLARS PORT OF SPAIN TRINIDAD |
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| Reverse lettering | COLONIAL BANK INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 |
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The Colonial Bank was a British-chartered institution operating across the Caribbean and British Guiana, and by 1917 it had been absorbed into Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) — though legacy instruments continued circulating under the old name during the transition period. Perkins, Bacon & Co. had a long relationship with colonial currency issuers, their intaglio work being a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure in territories where enforcement was thin.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference indicates private or commercial bank issue rather than a central authority — a distinction that matters for dating and legal tender status in the issuing territory.