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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) |
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| Year | 1931-1954 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Green and red print on white paper, with a central vignette of a flock of sheep at left within an ornate guilloche border. The denomination numeral '5' appears in large format at lower centre, flanked by the trilingual value inscriptions 'VYF POND' and 'FIVE POUNDS', with 'FÜNF PFUND' below. Two manuscript signatures of bank officials appear at lower centre, with serial number repeated at upper left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on a light guilloche underprint, with the bank's circular vignette at centre showing a sailing ship surrounded by the full bank name legend on a ribbon scroll. The denomination '5' appears in each corner, with trilingual value inscriptions 'VYF POND', 'FIVE POUNDS', and 'FÜNF PFUND' displayed across the lower portion of the design within an ornate engraved frame. |
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Barclays Bank DCO — the Dominion, Colonial and Overseas arm — was formed in 1925 through the amalgamation of several colonial banking operations, and these notes circulated across a surprisingly wide geographic patchwork, from East Africa to the Caribbean, depending on the branch of issue. The issuing location printed on individual notes matters considerably here; the same Pick 3 type was used across multiple territories, and provenance can shift collector value substantially.
Waterlow & Sons produced the series to a consistently high standard, but the 23-year print span means paper quality and ink tone vary noticeably across dates.