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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Purple and blue on light underprint. The reverse displays a symmetrical guilloche framework with large numeral '5' denominational counters in the upper left and right corners, flanking a central supported Royal Arms vignette. The bank's incorporation legends are printed in small text below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY PARLIAMENT 1925 |
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Barclays DCO — the Dominion, Colonial and Overseas division formed in 1925 through the merger of three colonial banking operations — issued this note during a period when it still maintained full note-issuing privileges across a sprawling range of territories. The critical detail often missed is that the P#S101A cataloging places this firmly in the "S" series: a commercial bank issue, not a central bank obligation. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility, produced some of the tightest intaglio security work of any commercial printer active in the 1930s.
Which territory this note was intended for is the real question — Barclays DCO circulated paper across East Africa, the West Indies, and Southern Africa simultaneously, and without the specific branch designation confirmed, provenance matters considerably to valuation.