Currency history
Barbados dollar
Barbados dollar: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- BBD
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
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This currencyBBD
Barbados dollarNo successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
Barbados’s central bank describes BCCB/ECCA predecessors and national banknotes from 1973. [1]
Barbados fixed two local dollars per U.S. dollar on 5 July 1975. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Central Bank of Barbados · Past Banknotes C194 ↗
- Central Bank of Barbados · Fixed for Forty-One Years C195 ↗
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“Barbados dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000520.html