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5 Dollars Colonial Bank
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1879 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | COLONIAL BANK ISSUED AT ST. CROIX BRANCH We Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand the Sum of FIVE DOLLARS ST. THOMAS 1st Janry 1879 By order of the Court of Directors of the Colonial Bank. Manager. Accountt. FIVE DOLLARS |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and appears to be plain or bears only a simple geometric border pattern typical of Colonial Bank notes of this period, without pictorial vignettes. |
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The Colonial Bank was a British-chartered institution incorporated in 1836, operating primarily across the British West Indies — Barbados, Trinidad, British Guiana, and several smaller territories. By 1879 it was one of the more stable regional issuers in the Caribbean, though it would eventually be absorbed into Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) in 1926 along with several peer institutions.
Pinning down which branch office issued a specific Colonial Bank note from this period requires scrutiny of the payable location printed on the face — the bank issued locally redeemable obligations from multiple territories, and they are not interchangeable in a collection.