Falkland Islands pound
Falkland Islands pound: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- FKP
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Its place in the family
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Falkland Islands pound
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
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Falkland Islands pound
Pound sterling
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
The story
The Falkland Islands Currency Note Order 1899 came into operation on 16 October 1899, authorising government paper denominations from five shillings upward. [1]
Currency Ordinance defines local pound and independently denominates local contracts/liabilities despite sterling parity. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Falkland Islands National Archives · Treasury — archival introduction C550 ↗
- Falkland Islands Currency Ordinance 1987 · Falkland Islands Currency Ordinance 1987, consolidated 24 July 2025 C1504 ↗
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“Falkland Islands pound.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000223.html