5 Dollars Colonial Bank

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.