Catalog
5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Size | 150 × 84 mm |
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| Reverse description | The supported royal arms are centrally positioned as the sole vignette on an otherwise plain ground, surrounded by the bank's corporate title and charter inscriptions in a formal typographic layout. |
| Reverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 |
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Barclays DCO — the Dominion, Colonial and Overseas arm restructured from the Colonial Bank, Anglo-Egyptian Bank, and National Bank of South Africa merger in 1925 — issued notes across a sprawling range of territories, which makes pinning down the precise issuing location for any given P#S106 example a legitimate cataloging problem. The 1939 date places production squarely in the months surrounding the outbreak of war, and Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was printing currency for numerous colonial issuers simultaneously during this period.
BWC engraved their own plates in-house, and the quality of intaglio work on DCO issues is consistently high — though that consistency is precisely what makes distinguishing territorial variants difficult without the overprint or payable-at text.