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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue on green and purple underprint. The standard Barclays colonial note design carries the branch-of-issue overprint 'ISSUED AT DOMINICA BRANCH' printed diagonally in red on both the left and right sides. A capital letter 'D' appears in the upper left field, while the supported Royal Arms vignette is centred on the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE IN LOCAL CURRENCY ISSUED AT DOMINICA BRANCH |
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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.