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5 Dollars Colonial Bank
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on beige underprint, with the legend COLONIAL BANK rendered in large curved letters reversed out in white across the centre of the note. The British Royal Coat of Arms appears at top centre, flanked on both sides by the branch designation ISSUED AT ST. KITTS BRANCH printed diagonally in black. The promise-to-pay text and denomination FIVE DOLLARS are inscribed below, with place of issue given as BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS. |
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| Obverse lettering | COLONIAL BANK $5 ISSUED AT ST. KITTS BRANCH $5 WE PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF FIVE DOLLARS BRIDGETOWN BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE COLONIAL BANK FIVE DOLLARS BARBADOS |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and carries a simple, typographic layout centred on the denomination numeral 5 flanking the bank name COLONIAL BANK, with little additional ornamentation, consistent with the restrained design conventions of early twentieth-century British colonial currency. |
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