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5 Dollars - George VI
| Issuer | Government of Barbados |
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| Year | 1938-1943 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Purple and blue note with black serial numbers; a portrait of King George VI is positioned at right, while a vignette of Neptune in a horse-drawn sea-cart occupies the left field. Guilloche underprint patterns fill the background, with the denomination and issuer inscriptions arranged across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour print centred on a watermark area surrounded by an intricate geometrical guilloche design, with the issuer's name inscribed across the note. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series for multiple British Caribbean territories simultaneously, often sharing plate geometry and border elements across denominations and colonies — a colonial efficiency that makes individual attribution tricky without examining the text closely. Barbados's wartime note issues were tightly controlled, with the Colonial Secretary's Office in Bridgetown managing distribution to prevent hoarding as the war disrupted shipping and trade across the Atlantic.
Pick 4 is among the scarcer survivors of the series. Wartime humidity in Barbados was punishing on paper, and notes that circulated heavily rarely survived intact.