Catalog
5 Dollars Barclays Bank
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL AND OVERSEAS) INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1836 REINCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1925 FORMERLY THE COLONIAL BANK PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AT ITS OFFICE HERE FIVE DOLLARS IN LOCAL CURRENCY ISSUED AT GRENADA BRANCH FIVE DOLLARS PORT OF SPAIN TRINIDAD |
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| 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 Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) occupied an unusual position in colonial monetary systems — a private British commercial bank with the authority to issue legal tender across multiple territories simultaneously. This 1941 note falls squarely into the wartime period when sterling area controls tightened and the movement of currency between colonial outposts was subject to exchange restrictions that had no peacetime precedent.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility continued producing colonial and commercial bank issues throughout the war despite the obvious logistical pressures, and the S108 series is among the later private bank issues before postwar reforms progressively stripped commercial institutions of their note-issuing privileges across British territories.