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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937-1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Purple intaglio on blue and orange guilloche underprint. The supported royal arms vignette is centred, flanked by the branch-of-issue overprint reading 'ISSUED AT ST. LUCIA BRANCH' in red, applied diagonally on both the left and right sides. Serial number in a single-letter-over-two-letter prefix format with up to seven digits appears at upper right and lower left; the manuscript Accountant signature and issue date appear at lower left, the printed Manager signature and head-office designation 'Bridgetown Barbados' at lower right, with a capital 'L' in the upper-right field. |
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| Reverse description | Purple intaglio on blue and green guilloche underprint. The supported royal arms vignette is centrally positioned within an elaborate symmetrical guilloche framework, flanked on either side by large foliate rosette panels bearing the denomination numeral '5' within ornate cartouches. The bank name and historical designations are inscribed in bold lettering across the upper portion, with the incorporation legends and printer's imprint arranged along the lower margin. |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) — the DCO — was the product of a 1925 amalgamation designed to consolidate Barclays' far-flung colonial operations under a single corporate umbrella. This note was issued through that structure during a period when DCO branches across British territories in Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere operated with considerable operational independence, placing notes into local circulation that were backed by London but managed regionally.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was the standard high-security printer for much of Britain's colonial note output in this period. The P#S111 designation — "S" for Specialized — reflects its status outside mainstream central bank cataloguing.