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5 Dollars Colonial Bank - King Edward VII
| Issuer | Colonial Bank |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1822-1965) |
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| Obverse lettering | COLONIAL BANK $5 ISSUED AT GRENADA 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 |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 COLONIAL BANK 5 |
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The Colonial Bank was a British overseas institution operating across the Caribbean, with its principal offices in Bridgetown, Barbados. By 1907, the bank was already in decline — it would be absorbed into Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) in 1925 along with several other imperial banking concerns, effectively ending its independent note-issuing life.
Perkins, Bacon & Petch were the engravers of choice for colonial currency throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, responsible for many of the Caribbean's most carefully produced private bank issues. The S111 designation places this squarely among the scarcer colonial private bank notes of the anglophone Caribbean — surviving issued examples are genuinely uncommon.