← Read the currency articleNova 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 ↗
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 CanadaPowell 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.