Evidence coverage: Undated–Undated. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Powell describes Halifax’s 1758 legal rating of a Spanish dollar at five local shillings, equivalent to four dollars per account pound.
C160Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Powell describes Halifax’s 1758 legal rating of a Spanish dollar at five local shillings, equivalent to four dollars per account pound.
Printed p. 13 / PDF p. 19
Follow its footnotes to currency laws and cited scholarship
McCullough reports that Nova Scotia’s 1758 five-shilling dollar act was disallowed; the Halifax rating persisted by custom.
p.85, footnote 8
Nominal account values are not commercial exchange rates; Vancouver date table conflicts with prose, resolved here with the 1862 act.