JAMAICA

In Jamaica’s early days as a colony, banking and paper money was provided exclusively by commercial banks. These issues were finally terminated in 1950, after which the Government took full responsibility for the island’s paper money.

The early banks included three Canadian ones, reflecting the close trading links between Canada and all the British Caribbean islands. The Colonial Bank, founded in London in 1836 and taken over by Barclays DCO in 1926, also issued its own notes.

These early issues are hard to find nowadays but many of them are delightful designs greatly sought after by (mainly) US and Canadian collectors. All notes issued