Catalog
5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1822-1965) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on a salmon-pink guilloche underprint, with the Royal Arms vignette at centre — lion and unicorn supporters flanking a crowned quartered shield with motto DIEU ET MON DROIT — surrounded by elaborate intaglio scrollwork. The bank's name arcs across the upper portion in bold letterpress, with serial number and date at lower right, and the branch overprint ST. VINCENT applied diagonally in red. Denomination panels reading FIVE appear vertically at each side, with FIVE DOLLARS in a framed cartouche at lower centre, and place of issue BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK DIEU ET MON DROIT INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO LTD ENGRAVERS, NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was itself a new entity in 1926 — the merged product of Colonial Bank, the Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa, consolidated under the Barclays umbrella just the year before in 1925. This note falls right at the start of that reorganization, when the new institution was still establishing uniform note-issuing standards across its scattered colonial territories.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was the dominant supplier to British colonial banking networks during this period, and the engraving quality reflects that industrial confidence. The Pick S101 designation places this in the specialized private commercial issues section — not a central bank instrument, and never legal tender in any strict sense.