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West African Currency Board pound

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Irish pound → Pound sterling · 1826 · Later contribution or absorptionPound sterling → West African Currency Board pound · 1912–1913 · Predecessor connectionEgyptian silver drachma accounting → Roman as–denarius–sestertius accounting · Evidence period: AD 296–AD 351 · Later contribution or absorptionRoman solidus–nomisma accounting → Frankish denier–livre reckoning · Evidence period: AD 400–AD 700 · Earlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openAttic drachma accounting → Egyptian silver drachma accounting · Evidence period: 332 BC–259 BC · Earlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openRoman as–denarius–sestertius accounting → Roman solidus–nomisma accounting · Evidence period: AD 274–AD 375 · Earlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openFrankish denier–livre reckoning → Pound sterling · Evidence period: AD 600–1087 · Earlier ancestry; intervening stages remain open
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West African Currency Board pound → Ghanaian pound · 1958 · Predecessor connectionWest African Currency Board pound → Nigerian pound · 1959 · Predecessor connectionWest African Currency Board pound → Gambian pound · 1964–1968 · Predecessor connectionGhanaian pound → Ghanaian cedis · 1965 · Predecessor connectionWest African Currency Board pound → Sierra Leonean leone · 1964 · Predecessor connectionGambian pound → Gambian dalasi · 1971 · Predecessor connectionNigerian pound → Biafran pound · 1968 · Predecessor connectionNigerian pound → Nigerian naira · 1973 · Predecessor connection
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