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Nova Scotia decimal dollar: research record

Evidence coverage: 1871–1871. 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.

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Nova Scotia decimal dollar

T-FTM000493 · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1871; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.

Children / successors

Canadian dollarabsorbed into existing currency · 1 July 1871 for payments covered by section 6 · later absorption or contribution
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Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Nova Scotia decimal dollarFTM000493 · C162
Monetary history 1 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

1871Nova Scotia currency aligned with Canada

Powell dates Nova Scotia’s decimal transition to 1860 and the 1871 alignment at 75 Nova Scotia cents for 73 Canadian cents.

C162
Evidence & research notes 2 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C162

Powell dates Nova Scotia’s decimal transition to 1860 and the 1871 alignment at 75 Nova Scotia cents for 73 Canadian cents.

James Powell; Bank of Canada · A History of the Canadian Dollar Citation S11 · Open source ↗

Printed pp. 24, 27

Source access and limitations

Follow its footnotes to currency laws and cited scholarship

Supported C313

Section 6 applies the 75-Nova-Scotia-cent to 73-Canadian-cent conversion to covered payments from 1 July 1871, rounding fractional Canadian cents to the nearest whole cent.

Canada; historical statutory text preserved in Aldrich papers, FRASER · Currency Act, Revised Statutes of Canada 1906, chapter 25 Citation S160 · Open source ↗

Currency, chapter 25, section 6, p.312

Source access and limitations

OCR inspected; cited sections establish historical debt treatment, not the date every coin stopped circulating.

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