Catalog
5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Purple on blue and orange underprint. The supported royal arms vignette occupies the centre, flanked by the branch-of-issue overprint 'ISSUED AT ST. KITTS BRANCH' printed diagonally in red on both left and right margins. Serial number prefix of a single letter over two letters separated by a dot appears at upper right and lower left, with the date of issue in black at lower left, head office designation 'Bridgetown Barbados' at lower right, and a capital letter K in the upper right field; manuscript accountant's signature at lower left and printed manager's signature at lower right. |
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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 ST KITTS BRANCH |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) was the product of a 1925 amalgamation that absorbed Colonial Bank, the Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and the National Bank of South Africa — a deliberate consolidation designed to give Barclays a single, coordinated presence across British territories. The DC&O division issued its own notes across multiple dependencies, with designs and denominations tailored by region. Bradbury Wilkinson printed for a long roster of colonial currency authorities throughout this period, and their work for Barclays was consistent with that output.
P#106A belongs to a series that would be overtaken by wartime currency controls and the gradual post-war transition toward government-issued legal tender across former colonial territories.