Catalog
5 Dollars Barclays Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937-1940 |
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| Printer | Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd., New Malden, Surrey, England |
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| Obverse description | Pink and orange intaglio-printed note with an elaborate guilloche underprint spanning the centre, over which the denomination FIVE DOLLARS appears in large red letters. A circular guilloche vignette bearing the words FIVE DOLLARS occupies the left field, while the supported Royal Arms vignette is positioned at right. Two handwritten signatures appear at the bottom, labelled ACCOUNTANT and MANAGER respectively, with the date and branch designation ISSUED AT GRENADA BRANCH overprinted diagonally in red, and BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Pink and blue intaglio-printed reverse dominated by a large central vignette of the supported Royal Arms with the motto DIEU ET MON DROIT on a ribbon below, flanked symmetrically by ornate guilloche rosette panels and numeral 5 counters at left and right. The bank name and its predecessor institution are inscribed in bold lettering across the upper portion, with the incorporation legend running along the lower margin. A scalloped guilloche border frames the entire design. |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was itself a 1925 consolidation of Colonial Bank, the Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa — a merger engineered largely to rationalise British banking interests across multiple territories under a single issuing umbrella. Notes under this title circulated across a patchwork of dependencies, and attribution to a specific territory requires checking the payable-at text rather than the issuer name alone.
Bradbury, Wilkinson printed for numerous colonial banking clients during this period and maintained tight security procedures — serial numbering, plate registration, and paper sourcing were all handled in-house at New Malden.