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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937-1941 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in shades of purple and red-violet on a light green and yellow guilloche underprint. A circular intaglio vignette at left bears the denomination FIVE DOLLARS within an ornate lathe-work frame, while the supported Royal Arms with lion and unicorn supporters and the motto DIEU ET MON DROIT appear at right. The promise-to-pay text and issuing bank's name are set in bold letterpress across the centre, with the place of issue PORT OF SPAIN TRINIDAD at lower right and two manuscript signatures of the Accountant and Manager below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in purple on a blue and green guilloche underprint. A large central intaglio vignette carries the supported Royal Arms — lion and unicorn flanking a crowned shield bearing the quartered arms of England, Scotland, and Ireland — with the motto DIEU ET MON DROIT on a ribbon below, set within an elaborate floral guilloche surround. Numeral 5 counters enclosed in lathe-work cartouches appear at both left and right, and the bank's name arcs across the top in bold letterpress. |
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Barclays DCO — the "Dominion, Colonial and Overseas" arm formed in 1925 through the merger of Colonial Bank, the Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa — operated as a commercial issuing bank across British territories at a time when central banking infrastructure was thin or nonexistent. These notes circulated as genuine working currency, not supplementary instruments, in territories where Barclays often held a near-monopoly on formal banking.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced the plates to their usual intaglio standard. The S102 designation places this firmly in the commercial bank issues documented under Pick's specialized listings rather than the main sequence — a distinction that matters for attribution.