5 Dollars Barclay's Bank

Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was itself a 1925 amalgamation — Colonial Bank, the Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa folded into a single entity under the Barclays umbrella, giving the parent bank a sprawling colonial network almost overnight. This note series was among the first issued under that consolidated identity, which explains the somewhat awkward full corporate title that appears on the face.

Bradbury Wilkinson printed for a remarkable range of colonial and dominion issuers during this period, and the P#S101 sits within a catalog of privately-issued colonial banknotes that were legal tender in specific territories — though the precise jurisdiction this note was intended for is not captured in the reference alone.