Jamaican dollar
Jamaican dollar: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- JMD
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Where this money came from
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The story
BOJ dates Jamaica’s decimal currency to 8 September 1969 on a ten-shilling dollar basis. [1]
BOJ’s statutory extracts define a 100-cent dollar and show the 1969 amendment; later amended call-in provisions do not by themselves establish the 1969 withdrawal schedule. [2]
Ministry Paper 7 explains the ten-shilling dollar recommendation and abandons the earlier 2½-cent coin/halfpenny proposal; policy proposals must not be graphed as enacted currencies. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Bank of Jamaica · History of Jamaican Currency C192 ↗
- Bank of Jamaica · Currency: Related Legislative Provisions C463 ↗
- Edward Seaga, Minister of Finance and Planning; National Library of Jamaica · Ministry Paper No.7, 20 March 1969: Decimal Currency C464 ↗
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“Jamaican dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000517.html