Ghanaian pound
Ghanaian pound: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗Ghanaian pound
This currencyTrace its ancestry backward
Ghanaian pound
West African Currency Board 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
1965 Act substitutes cedi principalunit and converts all poundreferences in enactments and written/oral obligations at £1=2.40cedis. [1]
Turning points
First national issue
Bank of Ghana first issued national pounds, shillings and pence on 14 July 1958, taking over from WACB. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Republic of Ghana · Bank of Ghana (Amendment) Act 1965, Act282,9April 1965 C1574 ↗
- Bank of Ghana, Statistics and Reports Office, Issue Department · Evolution of Currency in Ghana C406 ↗
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“Ghanaian pound.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000641.html