Maltese pound / lira
Maltese pound / lira: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Where this money came from
7 ancestors · 1 descendant. Follow a name to its history. Select a dated connection for its evidence.
The story
Malta decimalized while retaining the pound as its unit. [1]
Turning points
Account-unit observation
Malta pound is the existing principal statutory unit; decimalization changes subdivisions and covered contract/account fractions. [2]
Currency rename
Maltese pound was renamed Maltese lira. [3]
Euro monetary substitution
1 EUR = 0.429300 MTL. Malta: euro adoption 2008-01-01; cash 2008-01-01. Regulation 974/98 substitutes the euro for each participating state’s currency on its adoption date; cash changeover is separately defined. [4] [5] [6]
Euro cash changeover
Malta: euro adoption 2008-01-01; cash 2008-01-01. [5]
Sources and evidence
- Central Bank of Malta · A Brief History of the Central Bank of Malta C871 ↗
- Parliament of Malta · Central Bank of Malta (Amendment No2) Act, XX of 1971 C1502 ↗
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C872 ↗
- Council of the European Union · Council Regulation (EC) 2866/98 — consolidation at 1 January 2026 C690 ↗
- Council of the European Union · Council Regulation (EC) 974/98 — consolidation at 1 January 2026 C691 ↗
- Council of the European Union · Council Regulation (EC) 974/98 — consolidation at 1 January 2026 C646 ↗
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“Maltese pound / lira.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000801.html