5 Dollars Barclay's Bank

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.