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5 Dollars Barclay's Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1940-1941 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1822-1965) |
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| Obverse description | Purple on blue and orange underprint, using the standard Barclays colonial note design. The supported royal arms vignette appears at centre, flanked by diagonal red overprints reading 'ISSUED AT ST. VINCENT BRANCH' on both left and right sides. Serial number with single-letter prefix X appears at upper right and lower left; the date of issue is in black at lower left, the head office designation 'Port of Spain Trinidad' in black at lower right, a capital letter T in the upper right field, and manuscript and printed signatures for Accountant and Manager respectively at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in purple on a light guilloche underprint, the reverse is dominated by the supported royal arms at centre, flanked symmetrically by large numeral '5' counters set within ornate lathe-work panels on both left and right. Floral guilloche rosettes fill the surrounding field, and the printer's imprint 'BRADBURY WILKINSON & CO. LTD. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND' appears in small letters at the foot of the design. |
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Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) occupied an unusual position in colonial banking — it was a commercial institution with formal authorization to issue currency across multiple territories simultaneously, a privilege that created considerable overlap and occasional friction with colonial treasury authorities. This note belongs to a wartime issue, and the timing matters: sterling exchange controls introduced after September 1939 directly affected how colonial bank notes were managed, repatriated, and redeemed.
Bradbury Wilkinson's Surrey plant continued producing colonial currency through the early war years despite competing demands on secure printing capacity. The P#S106 designation places this firmly in the private commercial issue category rather than any government emergency series.