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Pound sterling: research record

Evidence coverage: AD 786–1990. 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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Currency continuity

Pound sterling

GBP · GIP · Research draft

The cited Gibraltar history expressly identifies sterling as the unit: local notes are a territorial issue, not another unit. British Currency Act expressly keeps local contracts/payments/liabilities in sterling even alongside local-note issue. Preserve Bahamas use as sterling regional observation and dollar conversion. Source review establishes a continuing account unit; local issues and naming epochs remain profile evidence.

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.
Current currency in the inherited endpoint register.
Dated observations: AD 786–1990; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Irish pound — pre-1826 account unitabsorbed into existing currency · 1826 · later absorption or contribution
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Frankish denier–livre reckoningaccount unit branching · qualified · 600–1087
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Children / successors

Bahamian dollarredenominated as · 1966
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Bermudian dollarredenominated as · 1970
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Vancouver Island decimal dollaraccount unit branching · 1 January 1863 specified
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British Columbia decimal dollarreplaced by · qualified · 1 January 1866 specified; proclamation evidence open
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West African Currency Board poundterritorial currency separation · 1912–1913
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Irish pound — modern currencyterritorial currency separation · 1927–1928
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Tongan poundaccount unit branching · 1935–1936
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Saint Helena poundterritorial currency separation · 1975–1976
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Falkland Islands poundaccount unit branching · 1987–1990
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Hong Kong dollaraccount unit contribution · qualified · 1864 · later absorption or contribution
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Maltese pound / liraaccount unit branching · 1949–1968
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Cypriot poundaccount unit branching · 1879–1949
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Australian poundaccount unit branching · 1929–1936
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New Zealand poundaccount unit branching · 1933–1935
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Fiji poundaccount unit branching · 1929–1933
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Jamaican poundaccount unit branching · qualified · 1840-12-31
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South African poundterritorial currency separation · 1914–1925
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Pound Scotsaccount unit branching · qualified · 1300–1599
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Names and unit scales 4 records

These stages belong to this profile, not separate branches.

Gibraltar pound1914–1914 · source record FTM000224
Pound sterling1489–1972 · source record T-FTM000497
Bahamas poundUndated–Undated · source record T-FTM000522
Bermuda poundUndated–Undated · source record T-FTM000524
Unit and issue records 3 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Gibraltar Pound — endpoint research dossierFTM000730 · C556
Mercian estate-immunity annual account obligation · C1280
Kentish grant explicitly priced in pennies · C1281

Adopted as a monetary basis by

◇ Hong Kong dollarexchange rate anchor

Hong Kong instituted a sterling anchor in 1935. Postwar tables document its continuation and 1967 parity change before the switch to USD.

1935 introduction; postwar evidence 1946–1972

Initially 16 HKD per GBP; 14.55 from 23 November 1967.

Exchange Fund and certificates backing banknote issue; postwar official parity regime.

  • 1967-11-23 — 14.55 HKD per GBP; revaluation within the sterling anchor.

Wartime operation and the exact pre-1972 break following sterling flotation are not fully resolved; do not read the outer dates as uninterrupted daily convertibility.

The recorded episode ends at the stated boundary. Excluded from ancestry, sibling relationships and depth.

Evidence and relationship details Register entry →
◇ British Caribbean / East Caribbean dollarexchange rate anchor

The ECCA episode used a sterling peg before the EC dollar’s 1976 switch to USD.

ECCA episode: 6 October 1965 – 7 July 1976

4.80 XCD per GBP.

ECCA currency management with a stated sterling peg.

The reviewed start is the ECCA issue witness. Earlier British Caribbean sterling links remain to be scoped; this does not create a 1965 currency identity.

The recorded episode ends at the stated boundary. Excluded from ancestry, sibling relationships and depth.

Evidence and relationship details Register entry →

Standards and other context

multiple currency unification

Sterlingcoin circulation does not establish sterling as the accountunit immediately replaced in1894. Primary1894ordinance instead makes USDgold the standardforcontracts.

C986, C1592
standard alignment

Sterling coins and the sterling rating coexisted with the inherited British West Indian dollar account unit. They do not make sterling its account-unit parent.

C983, C1656
account system adoption

Frankish twelve-penny shilling reckoning entered English usage by the late tenth/early eleventh century, alongside older four- and five-penny shillings. This was subdivision transmission within an existing English penny system. Late-tenth-century uptake is reconstructed; Byrhtferth’s dated witness is 1011–c.1020. Four witnesses cluster in reformed monastic contexts; nationwide simultaneous adoption is not claimed.

C1850

Latest research

Earlier English accounting and Offa

Pound-denominated obligations in Alfred’s will (873–888) and the Alresford lease (879–908), plus a tenth-century legal valuation, support a qualified early extension. These are not exact founding dates. Offa’s Frankish coin models and weight targets remain coinage evidence; no Carolingian ancestry edge is admitted.

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Earlier unit continuity

The 799–801 Mercian annual render and 805–807 Kentish penny valuation can extend the existing English monetary profile with qualified regional continuity; neither text establishes a 240-penny pound or a Frankish-to-English conversion.

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Earlier unit continuity

The 799–801 Mercian annual render and 805–807 Kentish penny valuation can extend the existing English monetary profile with qualified regional continuity; neither text establishes a 240-penny pound or a Frankish-to-English conversion.

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Gap review finding

S1186 a, dated 799–801 and catalogued as an original document, records 200 solidi for estate immunities and an annual 30-solidus obligation.

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Gap review finding

S41, dated 805–807 and preserved in contemporary sheets, prices the Eythorne land grant at 3,000 denarii, translated as pence.

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Gap review finding

The 799–801 Mercian annual render and 805–807 Kentish penny valuation can extend the existing English monetary profile with qualified regional continuity; neither text establishes a 240-penny pound or a Frankish-to-English conversion.

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Gap review finding

S164 records a thirty-pound valuation in 809, confirmed 810, but survives in a later copy and has disputed authenticity.

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Gap review finding

The 796 Purton restoration records 2,000 silver solidi, but its disputed transmission makes it qualified corroboration rather than the firm earliest English anchor.

Sources and qualifications →
Gap review finding

S9 reports ten pounds of silver in a charter dated 686; authenticity questions and possible weight usage prevent adopting 686 as a demonstrated currency-pound origin.

Sources and qualifications →
Historical account research

British currency was established in Bermuda, with existing local-currency contracts converted into it.

Sources and qualifications →
Modern account-unit review

A separate WestAfricanpound succeeded preexisting Britishsterling circulation during1912–1913institution andissue transition; Britishsilver was actuallywithdrawn and repatriated atfacevalue. Originalscholarship explicitly identifies separatecurrency andregional succession; primaryanswer confirms withdrawal. Doesnotimply allindigenouscurrencies disappeared.

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Modern account-unit review

SouthAfricanlocal pound reckoning developed from Britishsterling account andredemption practices into a separatelyidentified monetaryunit duringthe wartime/postwar transition; byJanuary1925commissioners explicitly distinguishedtheSouthAfricanunit fromsterling. Contemporaryaccount andcontract-redemption history plusoriginalcommissionexplicit unitdistinction supportsancestry. Rangeisresearchenvelope,notexactbirth;1922firstnotes are notcreationproof.

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Modern account-unit review

Sterlingcoin circulation does not establish sterling as the accountunit immediately replaced in1894. Primary1894ordinance instead makes USDgold the standardforcontracts. Remove foundingancestry; retainmixedcirculation/standard context. Do not autoaddUSDparent until BZDseparation fromthe adoptedUSDunit is evidenced.

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Modern account-unit review

The Currency Ordinance defines the Falkland Islands pound and substitutes that local currency into sterling-denominated local obligations and enactments. This establishes the sterling relationship; the earlier independent-unit boundary is not dated by the 1899 note issue. Sections 3–4 and 8 establish the unit and inherited obligation framework; 1987–1990 is the inspected legal attestation, not a claim that no local distinction existed earlier.

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Modern account-unit review

Bahamianpoundnotes were localsterlinginstruments withinBritishsterling moneyofaccount expresslygoverningcontracts andliabilities. MergeT-FTM000522intoT-FTM000497; preserve1919notehistoryand1966dollaraccountreplacement withinredirectededges.

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Modern account-unit review

The modern locally issued Bermuda pound is sterling accounting, rather than a demonstrated separate principal account unit. British currency replaced the earlier local reckoning in1842; the1970dollar transition superseded this sterling system. Current graph's branch is supported by local issue alone. Merge the modern local-sterling profile into sterling; preserve any independently evidenced pre1842local currency separately. This is ontology adjudication, not a claim that parity alone proves identity.

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Modern account-unit review

The1927Saorstat pound established a local account unit; future domestic contracts defaulted to its legal currency while prior sterling obligations were not universally converted. Original historical analysis plus indexed operative contract clause supports regional branch, not restoration of pre1826unit.

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Modern account-unit review

The Tongan local pound branched from the earlier sterling reckoning,with a separate legally administered exchange regime established in1935–1936. Original statutory research and official monetary history distinguish Tongan obligations from both sterling and Australian currency. Australian pound is the selected anchor, not demonstrated adopted predecessor.1919/1921notes remain prior sterling-issue context; Little speculation about1929not admitted.

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Modern account-unit review

CurrencyOrdinance§8 converted covered UKcurrency obligations and statutory references to equivalent local StHelenacurrency, with overseas-payment exception. Direct account substitution establishes scoped branch even at parity; multiple commencement dates require care.

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Modern account-unit review

Malta pound developed from sterling into an independently legislated local account currency by1968;1972decimalization retained that principal unit. Explicit original monetary history plus legal independence and primary continuity establish ancestry.1949is lowerbound of permanent local issue,1968firm independentlegalregime; do not make1914notes or1972subdivision change a newcurrencybirth.

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Modern account-unit review

Cyprus currency inherited sterling reckoning; by1949 domestic contracts and statutory shilling references were explicitly construed in local legalcurrency and Cyprusshillings. Actual local obligation-denomination clauses resolve ancestry beyond metrology. Range denotes emergence before firm1949anchor, not exact1879creation.

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Modern account-unit review

Australian pound separated from the common sterling account system during1929–1936monetary breakup; earlier local sterling use and notes are continuity observations. Original account-unit research explicitly identifies regional separation. Earlier common-unit evidence affects branchdate/profileepoch, not existence of ancestry.1825/1910notproven distinct-unit birth.

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Modern account-unit review

1933legislation established distinctive NZcurrency and default local contract denomination, with redemption of earlier local notes into new legalcurrency. Original central-bank legal study explicitly distinguishes NZpounds from sterlingissuedinNZ; indexed contract provision corroborates. No fixed sterling conversion ratio asserted.

Sources and qualifications →
Modern account-unit review

Fiji developed a separate local pound from sterling during1929–1933;1933 legislation placed local monetary obligations on their own sterling-exchange basis. Original monetary research documents local monetary-account continuity from British currency and subsequent independent legal monetary regime.1914 issuer creation alone is not the unit birth.1929 is earliest observed market separation;1933 is firm legal endpoint for the bounded branch, not an exact claim of1929 legal founding.

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Modern account-unit review

Sterling coins and the sterling rating coexisted with the inherited British West Indian dollar account unit. They do not make sterling its account-unit parent. The independently sourced Spanish-dollar ancestry replaces the earlier mixed-circulation inference.

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Historical account research

British Currency Act expressly keeps local contracts/payments/liabilities in sterling even alongside local-note issue. Preserve Bahamas use as sterling regional observation and dollar conversion.

Sources and qualifications →
Modern account-unit review

Bahamianpoundnotes were localsterlinginstruments withinBritishsterling moneyofaccount expresslygoverningcontracts andliabilities. MergeT-FTM000522intoT-FTM000497; preserve1919notehistoryand1966dollaraccountreplacement withinredirectededges.

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Modern account-unit review

The modern locally issued Bermuda pound is sterling accounting, rather than a demonstrated separate principal account unit. British currency replaced the earlier local reckoning in1842; the1970dollar transition superseded this sterling system. Current graph's branch is supported by local issue alone. Merge the modern local-sterling profile into sterling; preserve any independently evidenced pre1842local currency separately. This is ontology adjudication, not a claim that parity alone proves identity.

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Earlier account evidence

Abba's Kentish will specifies burial obligations in pence; Heregyth's endorsement specifies thirteen pounds of pennies and remits a fifteen-pound obligation. This supplies a ninth-century English monetary-account witness within the existing pound/penny profile.

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Earlier account evidence

Alfred's will distributes pound-denominated monetary bequests to children, household followers and religious beneficiaries, independently confirming late-ninth-century English pound accounting.

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Earlier account evidence

Cuthred’s Eythorne grant values the transferred land at 3,000 pence. This contemporary account transaction supports the existing English penny lineage before the 833–839 pound-of-pennies witness.

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Earlier account evidence

Beonna’s Swineshead lease fixes consideration at 1,000 shillings and an annual render of hospitality or thirty sicli; heirs remain liable. This extends qualified early-English account evidence.

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Earlier account evidence

Burgred’s London grant describes sixty silver solidi, an earlier one-pound purchase, and annual rent of twelve denarii.

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Account-reckoning transmission

Frankish twelve-penny shilling reckoning entered English usage by the late tenth/early eleventh century, alongside older four- and five-penny shillings. This was subdivision transmission within an existing English penny system.

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Unit-of-account identity review

Retain the existing English pound/penny identity and distinguish dated penny accounting from dated pound accounting.

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Frankish reckoning, varied English shillings

The Royal Mint Museum explicitly traces English reckoning to the Frankish kingdom. This supports transmission of an account system; it does not date a single founding reform. Hines's four-penny shilling in the 930s and Naismith's account of Offa's Frankish coin models prevent a uniform twelve-penny shilling or an exact Offa conversion from being projected across Anglo-Saxon England.

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Earlier European account ancestry

English penny–pound reckoning has Frankish account ancestry: the Royal Mint Museum explicitly describes transmission of the reckoning system. Admit a qualified, compressed ancestry link, without identifying a single founder, exact adoption date, conversion rate or uniform early shilling. The seventh century through William I is a research envelope, not a dated observation or a claim that transmission lasted this whole period.

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Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

William I, 1066–1087supported

240-pence pound: observation in a reign, not exact creation date

C1024
873 × 888; curatorial approximation c.885qualified

Alfred’s pound-denominated bequests; assignment to the continuing sterling profile is a qualified inference.

C1057, C1058, C1063
879 × 908qualified

Alresford annual rent in pounds; assignment to the continuing sterling profile is a qualified inference.

C1059, C1063
930s; Screen c.935qualified

London code: half-pound livestock indemnity; assignment to the continuing sterling profile is a qualified inference.

C1060, C1061, C1063
799–801qualified

The 799–801 Mercian annual render and 805–807 Kentish penny valuation can extend the existing English monetary profile with qualified regional continuity; neither text establishes a 240-penny pound or a Frankish-to-English conversion.

C1280
805–807qualified

The 799–801 Mercian annual render and 805–807 Kentish penny valuation can extend the existing English monetary profile with qualified regional continuity; neither text establishes a 240-penny pound or a Frankish-to-English conversion.

C1281
1842supported

British currency was established in Bermuda, with existing local-currency contracts converted into it.

C1509
833–839supported

Abba's Kentish will specifies burial obligations in pence; Heregyth's endorsement specifies thirteen pounds of pennies and remits a fifteen-pound obligation. This supplies a ninth-century English monetary-account witness within the existing pound/penny profile.

C1775
873–888supported

Alfred's will distributes pound-denominated monetary bequests to children, household followers and religious beneficiaries, independently confirming late-ninth-century English pound accounting.

C1776
805–807supported

Cuthred’s Eythorne grant values the transferred land at 3,000 pence. This contemporary account transaction supports the existing English penny lineage before the 833–839 pound-of-pennies witness.

C1828
786–796qualified

Beonna’s Swineshead lease fixes consideration at 1,000 shillings and an annual render of hospitality or thirty sicli; heirs remain liable. This extends qualified early-English account evidence.

C1829
857qualified

Burgred’s London grant describes sixty silver solidi, an earlier one-pound purchase, and annual rent of twelve denarii.

C1830

Reforms within this currency

1914Local issue on imported currency standard

Gibraltar began local emergency sterling-note issues in 1914. The issuer explicitly describes sterling as the unit; this is a local issue branch, not proof of a separate monetary unit.

C988
Monetary history 8 events

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

15 February 1971Pound divided into 100 new pence

Decimalisation on 15 February 1971 retained the pound and changed its subdivision from 240 old pence to 100 new pence.

C253
September 1931Gold standard suspended

Britain suspended the gold standard in September 1931.

C255
1914Local banknote introduction

Gibraltar's first government banknotes were issued in 1914 under emergency Ordinance 10 of 1914.

C556
1489Documentary attestation

The 1489 sovereign first represented the established pound of account in a single coin.

C265
1919Local issue on imported currency standard

The Bahamas Currency Board issued local pounds against sterling at par. An issue-system derivation; the later dollar peg is a different relationship.

C985
1970Territorial unit derivation

Inference: The Bermuda pound replaced in 1970 was the locally issued sterling-denominated predecessor of the Bermuda dollar. The transition attests the inherited pound system; 1970 is not its origin date.

C987
1914Local issue on imported currency standard

Gibraltar began local emergency sterling-note issues in 1914. The issuer explicitly describes sterling as the unit; this is a local issue branch, not proof of a separate monetary unit.

C988
William I, 1066–1087Account unit observation

William I’s reign supplies the Royal Mint Museum’s 240-pence currency-pound anchor.

C1024
Evidence & research notes 96 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C556

Gibraltar's first government banknotes were issued in 1914 under emergency Ordinance 10 of 1914.

Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau · Gibraltar Banknotes Citation S290 · Open source ↗

First two history paragraphs

Supported C988

Gibraltar began local emergency sterling-note issues in 1914. The issuer explicitly describes sterling as the unit; this is a local issue branch, not proof of a separate monetary unit.

Gibraltar Philatelic Bureau · Gibraltar Banknotes Citation S290 · Open source ↗

1914 emergency notes; 1927 ordinance and sterling unit

Supported C169

The 1906 Commons reply records the Straits dollar fixed at two shillings and fourpence sterling.

UK House of Commons, Hansard · Straits Settlements Currency, 26 November 1906 Citation S83 · Open source ↗

Minister’s reply

Source access and limitations

Adopt fixed 2s 4d rate; a discussed fineness/weight reform is not proof of actual issue.

Supported C174

BNM dates Malaysia’s new dollar to 12 June 1967 and describes old-currency redemption at two shillings and fourpence sterling.

Bank Negara Malaysia · Significant milestones in the Malaysian foreign exchange market Citation S88 · Open source ↗

1967 entry

Source access and limitations

Announcement, ending interchangeability and floating are different events; dollar/ringgit are not assumed successive scales.

Supported C190

ECCB records EC$4.80 per pound before the July 1976 switch to EC$2.70 per U.S. dollar.

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank · Annual Report and Statement of Accounts 2014–2015 Citation S97 · Open source ↗

p. 145

Source access and limitations

Publisher-hosted report used; blocked main-site history and unrelated proxy copies not evidence.

Supported C253

Decimalisation on 15 February 1971 retained the pound and changed its subdivision from 240 old pence to 100 new pence.

The Royal Mint · The Royal Mint and Decimalisation Citation S133 · Open source ↗

Opening and Decimal Day

Source access and limitations

Subdivision reform; does not create a new pound.

Supported C254

The pre-decimal pound comprised 20 shillings, each of 12 pence.

Royal Mint Museum · Pounds, Shillings and Pence Citation S140 · Open source ↗

The pre-decimal system

Source access and limitations

Early transmission date and sterling etymology qualified by the source; no exact origin year assigned.

Supported C255

Britain suspended the gold standard in September 1931.

Bank of England · History of the Bank of England Citation S134 · Open source ↗

1931 entry

Source access and limitations

Only bounded institutional and convertibility statements used; broad causal explanations not adopted.

Supported C256

The 1925 Act provided bullion purchases at £3 17s 10½d per standard troy ounce, in bars of approximately 400 fine ounces.

UK Parliament, 13 May 1925 · Gold Standard Act 1925, chapter 29 Citation S135 · Open source ↗

Section 1(1)–(2)

Source access and limitations

Historical text as enacted; bullion access differs from coin redemption.

No present legal guidance.

Supported C257

The Bank’s obligation to exchange notes for gold was suspended during the Restriction Period, 1797–1821.

Bank of England · History of the Bank of England Citation S134 · Open source ↗

1797–1821 entry

Source access and limitations

Only bounded institutional and convertibility statements used; broad causal explanations not adopted.

Supported C258

The Bank began partially printed denominated notes in 1725; earlier notes were handwritten for deposited amounts.

Bank of England · History of the Bank of England Citation S134 · Open source ↗

1725 entry

Source access and limitations

Only bounded institutional and convertibility statements used; broad causal explanations not adopted.

Supported C264

The Royal Mint undertook a major recoinage of old silver during Newton’s first years as Warden from 1696.

Royal Mint Museum · Isaac Newton Citation S137 · Open source ↗

Warden section

Source access and limitations

Report and subsequent rating distinguished; no sole-cause claim for the gold standard.

Supported C265

The 1489 sovereign first represented the established pound of account in a single coin.

Royal Mint Museum · Tudor Sovereign Citation S139 · Open source ↗

1489 section

Source access and limitations

Different sovereign issues and ratings must not be flattened into one permanent one-pound coin.

Supported C268

The Museum links more consistent penny weight under William I to the development of sterling reckoning.

Royal Mint Museum · Pounds, Shillings and Pence Citation S140 · Open source ↗

Origins and sterling sections

Source access and limitations

Early transmission date and sterling etymology qualified by the source; no exact origin year assigned.

Supported C270

Fox interprets the 1707 union as harmonisation of coinage standards, without creation of a new account unit.

David Fox, Edinburgh Law Review 23(3), 2019, pp. 360–387 · The Anglo-Scots monetary union of 1707 Citation S142 · Open source ↗

Accepted manuscript pp. 1, 7–8

Source access and limitations

Account conversion is not a universal market exchange rate; union did not abolish Scots accounting immediately.

Supported C271

Twelve pounds Scots equalled one pound sterling in accounting; Fox distinguishes this from rates for actual circulating coins.

David Fox, Edinburgh Law Review 23(3), 2019, pp. 360–387 · The Anglo-Scots monetary union of 1707 Citation S142 · Open source ↗

Accepted manuscript p. 7

Source access and limitations

Account conversion is not a universal market exchange rate; union did not abolish Scots accounting immediately.

Supported C296

Kelly dates completion of the assimilation of the earlier Irish currency into that of the UK to 1826.

John Kelly, Central Bank of Ireland Quarterly Bulletin, Spring 2003, 89–115 · The Irish Pound: From Origins to EMU Citation S153 · Open source ↗

Section 2, printed p. 90

Source access and limitations

Only pre-1827 assimilation passage adopted; later modern Irish/euro history deferred.

Supported C297

The 1825 Commons debate described £100 British as equivalent to £108 6s 8d Irish and proposed discharging Irish debts at twelve-thirteenths in British currency.

UK Parliament, House of Commons, Hansard vol. 13, cols. 573–582 · Assimilation of the currencies of Great Britain and Ireland, 12 May 1825 Citation S152 · Open source ↗

Currency discussion and resolution 6

Source access and limitations

Debate and agreed resolutions are not the enacted law or commencement instrument.

Supported C309

Vancouver Island’s 1862 act specifies dollar public accounts from 1 January 1863 and $4.85 per pound sterling.

Colony of Vancouver Island; official historical statutes · Currency Act, 1862 — Vancouver Island Citation S157 · Open source ↗

sections I–III; assent 12 December 1862

Source access and limitations

Differentiate local assent and specified public-account commencement from later imperial confirmation.

Supported C310

British Columbia’s 1865 ordinance specifies dollar public accounts from 1 January 1866 and $4.85 per pound sterling, subject to its approval-proclamation clause.

Colony of British Columbia; official historical statutes · Decimal Currency Ordinance, 1865 Citation S158 · Open source ↗

sections I–III and VIII; assent 4 March 1865

Source access and limitations

Section VIII requires proclamation of imperial approval; that proclamation has not yet been inspected.

Supported C387

The 1852 act rates a lawful British sovereign at one local pound, four shillings and four pence.

New Brunswick Legislature; official printing reproduced by University of New Brunswick · New Brunswick currency act, 15 Victoria, chapter 85 (1852) Citation S186 · Open source ↗

section 1, printed p.109; lawful weight/fineness required

Source access and limitations

UNB metadata/transcription heading says 14 Victoria; original printed act says 15 Victoria.

Gazette issue itself not inspected.

Sections 1–11 and printed commencement note inspected against the UNB transcription

Supported C400

The WACB pound exchanged at sterling parity, with commissions; parity did not imply costless remittance.

Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) Citation S189 · Open source ↗

pp.244–245, exchange system

Source access and limitations

Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.

Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.

Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.

Inference C405

British silver already circulated locally before the WACB; the proposed sterling ancestry is scoped to that monetary replacement context.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0138. Originalscholarship explicitly identifies separatecurrency andregional succession; primaryanswer confirms withdrawal. Doesnotimply allindigenouscurrencies disappeared. Replacement evidence: C1579.

Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) Citation S189 · Open source ↗

p.244, formation rationale; final clause is editorial inference

Source access and limitations

Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.

Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.

Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.

Inference C607

Article 13 accepts qualifying sovereigns at fifteen rupees each; this is a tender valuation, not evidence of a sterling-to-rupee replacement.

British Crown; East Africa and Uganda Official Gazette; Kenya Law scan · East Africa and Uganda (Currency) Order in Council, 1905 — Gazette 1 June 1905 Citation S334 · Open source ↗

art.13, printed p.163; final classification editorial

Source access and limitations

Order dated 10 February 1905; territorial commencement proclamations and first note issue are not established by this text.

The 1898 measure is known here through its recital, not inspection of the 1898 original.

Inference C617

Article 5(1) values covered sterling payments at twenty local shillings per pound; this standard relationship is separate from rupee/florin succession.

Government of Kenya; Laws.Africa Gazettes archive · Kenya Gazette No.804, 16 December 1921: Proclamation 177 and Government Notices 461–462 Citation S336 · Open source ↗

principal order art.5(1), printed p.1067; editorial classification

Source access and limitations

Kenya commencement is not automatically Uganda or Tanganyika commencement.

The same-date amendment replaces the principal order’s subsidiary-coin exception.

First physical shilling issue and actual later demonetisation remain separate questions.

Inference C635

Section 66 preserves the federal pound’s sterling parity until demonetisation; it does not prescribe a national successor’s cash-exchange rate.

United Kingdom · Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Dissolution) Order in Council 1963, S.I.1963/2085 Citation S342 · Open source ↗

s.66, printed p.24; scope inference

Source access and limitations

Original conditional deadlines do not establish whether later powers were exercised, or the actual last tender/redemption dates.

Federal political dissolution and bank dissolution are distinct events.

Inference C868

The Saorstat pound established a national currency at sterling parity under the 1927 Act, followed by the 1928 issue. National monetary separation with continuing sterling circulation; not a revival conversion from the pre-1826 Irish unit.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0311. Original historical analysis plus indexed operative contract clause supports regional branch, not restoration of pre1826unit. Replacement evidence: C1632.

John Kelly, Central Bank of Ireland Quarterly Bulletin, Spring 2003, 89–115 · The Irish Pound: From Origins to EMU Citation S153 · Open source ↗

Opening historical sections: 1826 assimilation; 1927 Currency Act; 1928 issue; 1937 renaming

Source access and limitations

Only pre-1827 assimilation passage adopted; later modern Irish/euro history deferred.

Qualified C870

Malta’s local pound-note system developed within the British pound framework before the independent decimal coinage. Gradual lineage supported; the exact legal moment of a separate Maltese currency remains open. Central-bank founding in 1968 is not treated as its birth.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0312. Explicit original monetary history plus legal independence and primary continuity establish ancestry.1949is lowerbound of permanent local issue,1968firm independentlegalregime; do not make1914notes or1972subdivision change a newcurrencybirth. Replacement evidence: C1643.

Central Bank of Malta · Coinage in Malta Citation S432 · Open source ↗

PDF pp. 14–15: British legal tender from 1825; Order coins withdrawn by 1886; 1972 change

Central Bank of Malta · A Brief History of the Central Bank of Malta Citation S433 · Open source ↗

Printed p. 135: pre-1968 currency notes; 16 May 1972 decimalization retaining pound

Source access and limitations

Indexed page inspected; server refused full 97 MB document.

Do not use issuer establishment as currency birth.

Relevant indexed passage inspected in revision 13; Printed p. 135: pre-1968 currency notes; 16 May 1972 decimalization retaining pound

Qualified C873

Cyprus introduced a local coinage system of 180 piastres per English gold pound. Sterling-derived local unit; gradual replacement of non-British coins. Exact autonomous-currency separation and Ottoman exchange terms remain open.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0314. Actual local obligation-denomination clauses resolve ancestry beyond metrology. Range denotes emergence before firm1949anchor, not exact1879creation. Replacement evidence: C1644.

Eleni Zapiti / International Numismatic Commission · Modern Coins of Cyprus (1878–2008), Survey of Numismatic Research 2008–2013 Citation S434 · Open source ↗

Printed p. 476, PDF p. 492: 1879 system; 1955 decimalization; 1983 cents

Source access and limitations

Scholarly survey by collection author, not separately examined royal decrees.

Gradual unit derivation inferred; exact national-currency separation remains open.

Supported C936

Australian national pounds developed from the sterling currency adopted in the colonies. 1825 is the colonial framework; 1910 national legislation does not erase earlier local money.

Reserve Bank of Australia, Bulletin September 2018 · Money in the Australian Economy Citation S93 · Open source ↗

Box A: 1825 sterling legislation and 1910 national currency

Source access and limitations

Early Spanish coin use and later sterling institutions do not prove an unbroken dollar unit.

Supported C937

New Zealand local pound coinage and national notes succeeded the British-coin and trading-bank system. Staged monetary separation; no blanket 1:1 sterling conversion asserted.

Kerryn Pollock / Te Ara, Ministry for Culture and Heritage · Coins and banknotes Citation S449 · Open source ↗

Varied coins and banknotes; Old money; British withdrawal in 1935

Supported C938

Fiji’s local pound issues developed from an English-coin currency system. The board began in 1914 and local coins followed in 1934; this is unit descent, not a fixed exchange-rate claim.

Reserve Bank of Fiji · Our Currency Story — Part 1 Citation S450 · Open source ↗

PDF p. 1: 1914 board, English coins and 1934 local coinage

Supported C939

Tongan government pound notes supplemented the British currency already in use.

National Reserve Bank of Tonga · History of the Tongan Pa'anga Citation S240 · Open source ↗

Pound; 1921 and 1936 entries; Pa’anga changeover

Supported C944

Jamaica adopted British currency as the basis of its pound system. Spanish doubloons remained a legal-tender exception until 1901.

Bank of Jamaica · History of Jamaican Currency Citation S99 · Open source ↗

Spanish dollars; British colonial coinage; government notes

Source access and limitations

Historical evidence only; current legal status and every intervening amendment are not inferred.

Inference C947

The South African pound retained the British pound coin system while national notes succeeded commercial-bank issues. 1922 anchors a documented national stage, not a claimed first origin date; derivation rests on the inherited unit, not parity alone.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0368. Contemporaryaccount andcontract-redemption history plusoriginalcommissionexplicit unitdistinction supportsancestry. Rangeisresearchenvelope,notexactbirth;1922firstnotes are notcreationproof. Replacement evidence: C1587.

South African Reserve Bank · History of banknotes and coin Citation S244 · Open source ↗

South African currency; first decimal coin series

T. T. Mboweni / South African Reserve Bank · The Reserve Bank and the Rand: Some historic reflections, 29 November 2001 Citation S452 · Open source ↗

Section 2: local pound and first SARB notes on 19 April 1922

Inference C983

Barbados’s colonial currency combined sterling coinage with local dollar-denominated bank notes by 1850. The issuer history supports mixed-system descent; intermediate local dollar ratings remain to be expanded.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0401. The independently sourced Spanish-dollar ancestry replaces the earlier mixed-circulation inference. Replacement evidence: C1656.

Central Bank of Barbados · Annual Report 2013: Tracing the Origins of Money in Barbados Citation S467 · Open source ↗

PDF page 2: sterling circulation, mixed dollar notes, BCCB succession in 1951

Source access and limitations

Regional succession compressed at family level; additional territorial issues remain expandable.

No universal exchange rate inferred.

Supported C985

The Bahamas Currency Board issued local pounds against sterling at par. An issue-system derivation; the later dollar peg is a different relationship.

Central Bank of The Bahamas · Central banking history booklet Citation S468 · Open source ↗

Panel: Bahamas Currency Board 1919–1968; issue and redemption against sterling

Source access and limitations

Relevant indexed passage inspected in revision 16; Panel: Bahamas Currency Board 1919–1968; issue and redemption against sterling

Inference C986

British Honduras reorganised a sterling-based mixed circulation into a gold-basis system with local dollar notes in 1894. Sterling is one documented monetary input; Spanish-American coins and US dollars require separate branches. No exchange ratio inferred.

Central Bank of Belize · History of Belize Currency Citation S104 · Open source ↗

1800s: sterling basis from 1825; gold-basis dollar notes under Ordinance 31 of 1894

Source access and limitations

Do not merge British Honduras/Belize with BCCB automatically.

Apparent timeline discrepancy 1884 notes versus 1894 paperprevents treating everydate as firm.

Inference C987

The Bermuda pound replaced in 1970 was the locally issued sterling-denominated predecessor of the Bermuda dollar. The transition attests the inherited pound system; 1970 is not its origin date.

Bermuda Monetary Authority · Bermuda Monetary Authority: Celebrating 50 Years — 20 February 2019 release Citation S202 · Open source ↗

Currency section: pre-decimal sterling and 6 February 1970 change

Source access and limitations

Same release family as S103, not independent corroboration.

By 30 June is a bound, not proof of the exact final tender day or redemption expiry.

Supported C989

Local Falkland pound notes supplemented British sterling under the 1899 order, as reported in 1923.

Falkland Islands Government / National Archives · Colonial annual reports 1911–1930 Citation S469 · Open source ↗

1923 report, Currency: British sterling and local pound notes under the 7 March 1899 order

Source access and limitations

Relevant indexed passage inspected in revision 16; 1923 report, Currency: British sterling and local pound notes under the 7 March 1899 order

Supported C1024

William I’s reign supplies the Royal Mint Museum’s 240-pence currency-pound anchor.

Royal Mint Museum · Pounds, Shillings and Pence Citation S140 · Open source ↗

Origins paragraph

Source access and limitations

Early transmission date and sterling etymology qualified by the source; no exact origin year assigned.

Qualified C1025

The museum qualifies the early transmission of Frankish reckoning to England.

Royal Mint Museum · Pounds, Shillings and Pence Citation S140 · Open source ↗

Origins paragraph

Source access and limitations

Early transmission date and sterling etymology qualified by the source; no exact origin year assigned.

Supported C1057

Alfred’s will assigns 500 pounds to each son and other sums in pounds, while using mancuses for other bequests.

Electronic Sawyer, Cambridge · S 1507: Will of King Alfred Citation S493 · Open source ↗

Second part, monetary bequests; catalogue date, MSS and comments

Source access and limitations

Later copies; catalogue records competing assessments of textual layers.

No penny ratio in the inspected clause.

Qualified C1058

Sawyer dates S 1507 to 873–888; the British Library uses c.885. The earliest listed copy is eleventh-century.

Electronic Sawyer, Cambridge · S 1507: Will of King Alfred Citation S493 · Open source ↗

Second part, monetary bequests; catalogue date, MSS and comments

Source access and limitations

Later copies; catalogue records competing assessments of textual layers.

No penny ratio in the inspected clause.

British Library, Medieval Manuscripts, 29 July 2013 · The last will and testament of Alfred the Great Citation S495 · Open source ↗

Alfred’s will paragraphs

Source access and limitations

Gives c.885; use Sawyer’s wider range in structured dating.

No independent proof of 240 pence in this passage.

Supported C1059

S 1287 requires three pounds in annual rent at the autumnal equinox and is catalogued to 879–908.

Electronic Sawyer, Cambridge; translation after Robertson, Charters no. 15 · S 1287: Denewulf’s Alresford lease Citation S494 · Open source ↗

Date, MSS, authenticity comments, complete short translation and Old Text

Source access and limitations

Date is 879–908, not an exact year.

Surviving witness is a mid-twelfth-century copy.

Primary text and translation inspected

Supported C1060

VI Æthelstan, dated approximately 935 by Screen, values a horse for indemnity at half a pound, subject to actual value.

Elina Screen, British Numismatic Journal 77 (2007), pp.150–172 · Anglo-Saxon Law and Numismatics: A Reassessment in the Light of Patrick Wormald’s The Making of English Law Citation S496 · Open source ↗

p.166, table: VI Æthelstan, sixth clause §§1–2; c.935

Source access and limitations

Primary legal excerpts through Attenborough’s translation; c.935 is approximate.

Browser screenshot retrieval failed; table text checked against a separate study.

Qualified C1061

Hines identifies the four-penny shilling in the London code of the 930s and explains a sixty-shilling, 240-pence pound reckoning.

John Hines, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), pp.153–173; DOI 10.1017/S0003581510000089 · Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England: scillingas, sceattas and pæningas Citation S497 · Open source ↗

pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159

Source access and limitations

Regional shillings differ.

Proposed ancient metal equivalences are interpretations, not a dated succession chain.

Supported C1062

The Grately code, c.926–930, regulates transactions valued above twenty pennies.

Christopher Monk, Kent Archaeological Society · Æthelstan’s Grately Code, c.926–c.930 Citation S498 · Open source ↗

Dating and transmission; translation on transactions over twenty pennies

Source access and limitations

Grately is distinct from the London code.

A single coinage instruction does not itself define the pound.

Critical transcription/translation page inspected

Inference C1063

The ninth- and tenth-century English pound observations are suitable for a qualified early extension of the existing sterling profile.

Electronic Sawyer, Cambridge · S 1507: Will of King Alfred Citation S493 · Open source ↗

Second part, monetary bequests; catalogue date, MSS and comments

Source access and limitations

Later copies; catalogue records competing assessments of textual layers.

No penny ratio in the inspected clause.

Electronic Sawyer, Cambridge; translation after Robertson, Charters no. 15 · S 1287: Denewulf’s Alresford lease Citation S494 · Open source ↗

Date, MSS, authenticity comments, complete short translation and Old Text

Source access and limitations

Date is 879–908, not an exact year.

Surviving witness is a mid-twelfth-century copy.

Primary text and translation inspected

British Library, Medieval Manuscripts, 29 July 2013 · The last will and testament of Alfred the Great Citation S495 · Open source ↗

Alfred’s will paragraphs

Source access and limitations

Gives c.885; use Sawyer’s wider range in structured dating.

No independent proof of 240 pence in this passage.

Elina Screen, British Numismatic Journal 77 (2007), pp.150–172 · Anglo-Saxon Law and Numismatics: A Reassessment in the Light of Patrick Wormald’s The Making of English Law Citation S496 · Open source ↗

p.166, table: VI Æthelstan, sixth clause §§1–2; c.935

Source access and limitations

Primary legal excerpts through Attenborough’s translation; c.935 is approximate.

Browser screenshot retrieval failed; table text checked against a separate study.

John Hines, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), pp.153–173; DOI 10.1017/S0003581510000089 · Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England: scillingas, sceattas and pæningas Citation S497 · Open source ↗

pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159

Source access and limitations

Regional shillings differ.

Proposed ancient metal equivalences are interpretations, not a dated succession chain.

Christopher Monk, Kent Archaeological Society · Æthelstan’s Grately Code, c.926–c.930 Citation S498 · Open source ↗

Dating and transmission; translation on transactions over twenty pennies

Source access and limitations

Grately is distinct from the London code.

A single coinage instruction does not itself define the pound.

Critical transcription/translation page inspected

Open C1064

Early Kentish and West Saxon legal units cannot yet be connected to the pound by a fully dated local sequence.

John Hines, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), pp.153–173; DOI 10.1017/S0003581510000089 · Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England: scillingas, sceattas and pæningas Citation S497 · Open source ↗

pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159

Source access and limitations

Regional shillings differ.

Proposed ancient metal equivalences are interpretations, not a dated succession chain.

Supported C1092

Naismith identifies Pippin III’s reformed Frankish coinage and Beonna’s East Anglian issues as models for Offa’s broad pennies.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Supported C1093

Naismith gives an approximate 1.30 g target for Offa’s light pennies, matching contemporary Frankish coinage; the 792/3 heavy reform used about 1.45 g.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Supported C1094

The 2024 silver-provenance study places Offa’s coinage within continental silver-supply connections. This is evidence about metal supply, not by itself ancestry of the English pound.

Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Paolo D’Imporzano and Rory Naismith, Antiquity 98(398), 2024 · Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: provenance of silver, c. 660–820 Citation S146 · Open source ↗

Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion; DOI 10.15184/aqy.2024.33

Source access and limitations

49-coin analytical sample; excludes low-fineness English interval c. 715–760.

Open C1095

Frankish models and silver-supply connections do not yet establish a dated Frankish-to-English account-unit succession. No new ancestry edge is admitted.

Corrected interpretation: Explicit museum evidence of transmitted reckoning now supports qualified Frankish ancestry. The earlier caution about coin imitation remains valid; an exact dated account conversion is still not asserted. Replacement evidence: C2097.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Paolo D’Imporzano and Rory Naismith, Antiquity 98(398), 2024 · Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: provenance of silver, c. 660–820 Citation S146 · Open source ↗

Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion; DOI 10.15184/aqy.2024.33

Source access and limitations

49-coin analytical sample; excludes low-fineness English interval c. 715–760.

Inference C1150

Sterling → Saint Helena pound, 1976; local currency separation.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V22-048. Direct account substitution establishes scoped branch even at parity; multiple commencement dates require care. Replacement evidence: C1642.

Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 Citation S98 · Open source ↗

SHP entry, currency history; Bundesbank PDF, 24 September 2025 edition.

Source access and limitations

Historical reference, not a 2026 legal-status audit.

Only selected country milestones used.

Inference C1164

Hong Kong law converted specified public sterling payments into dollar payments at 4s2d per dollar from 16 February 1864. Assignment to the later distinct Hong Kong dollar is a qualified regional-continuity inference. This is a public-account contribution, not its sole founding ancestry.

Hong Kong Ordinance No. 1 of 1864: Conversion of British Currency · Hong Kong Ordinance No. 1 of 1864: Conversion of British Currency, with Governor proclamation 22 January 1864 Citation S560 · Open source ↗

Section 1; preamble; Governor proclamation; 1890 edition vol.1 pp.572–575

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full official-law transcription inspected; OCR imperfections do not affect currency/conversion provisions.

Inference C1280

The 799–801 Mercian annual render and 805–807 Kentish penny valuation can extend the existing English monetary profile with qualified regional continuity; neither text establishes a 240-penny pound or a Frankish-to-English conversion.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 1186 a: Pilheard agreement with Coenwulf, 799–801 Citation S631 · Open source ↗

Old Text, monetary clause; MSS and Comments identifying Cotton Augustus ii.27 as original; Text opening clause and translation; MSS/Comments on the contemporary single sheets

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full catalogue and Latin transcription inspected.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 41: Cuthred grant at Eythorne, 805–807 Citation S632 · Open source ↗

Old Text, monetary clause; MSS and Comments identifying Cotton Augustus ii.27 as original; Text opening clause and translation; MSS/Comments on the contemporary single sheets

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full Latin text, English translation and authenticity catalogue inspected.

Full Latin and English translation inspected, together with manuscript and authenticity notices.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

Old Text, monetary clause; MSS and Comments identifying Cotton Augustus ii.27 as original; Text opening clause and translation; MSS/Comments on the contemporary single sheets

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Inference C1281

The 799–801 Mercian annual render and 805–807 Kentish penny valuation can extend the existing English monetary profile with qualified regional continuity; neither text establishes a 240-penny pound or a Frankish-to-English conversion.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 41: Cuthred grant at Eythorne, 805–807 Citation S632 · Open source ↗

Text opening clause and translation; MSS/Comments on the contemporary single sheets

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full Latin text, English translation and authenticity catalogue inspected.

Full Latin and English translation inspected, together with manuscript and authenticity notices.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

Text opening clause and translation; MSS/Comments on the contemporary single sheets

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Supported C1311

S1186 a, dated 799–801 and catalogued as an original document, records 200 solidi for estate immunities and an annual 30-solidus obligation.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 1186 a: Pilheard agreement with Coenwulf, 799–801 Citation S631 · Open source ↗

Old Text, monetary clause; MSS and Comments identifying Cotton Augustus ii.27 as original

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full catalogue and Latin transcription inspected.

Supported C1312

S41, dated 805–807 and preserved in contemporary sheets, prices the Eythorne land grant at 3,000 denarii, translated as pence.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 41: Cuthred grant at Eythorne, 805–807 Citation S632 · Open source ↗

Text opening clause and translation; MSS/Comments on the contemporary single sheets

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full Latin text, English translation and authenticity catalogue inspected.

Full Latin and English translation inspected, together with manuscript and authenticity notices.

Qualified C1313

S164 records a thirty-pound valuation in 809, confirmed 810, but survives in a later copy and has disputed authenticity.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 164: Coenwulf grant to Wulfred at Barham, 809, confirmed 810 Citation S633 · Open source ↗

Text opening clause xxx libras; dating and Comments

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C1314

The 796 Purton restoration records 2,000 silver solidi, but its disputed transmission makes it qualified corroboration rather than the firm earliest English anchor.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 149: Ecgfrith restoration of Purton to Malmesbury, 796 Citation S634 · Open source ↗

Text/translation payment of 2,000 solidi; MSS and Comments

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full text, translation and critical catalogue inspected.

Qualified C1315

S9 reports ten pounds of silver in a charter dated 686; authenticity questions and possible weight usage prevent adopting 686 as a demonstrated currency-pound origin.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 9: Eadric grant near Stodmarsh, June 686 Citation S635 · Open source ↗

Text opening argenti libras decem; Comments

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1509

British currency was established in Bermuda, with existing local-currency contracts converted into it.

W. S. B. Woolhouse · The Measures, Weights, & Moneys of All Nations, second edition (1859) Citation S837 · Open source ↗

Printed112/PDF117

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

OCR mangles fraction in ratio, so no exact ratio adopted.

Supported C1579

A separate WestAfricanpound succeeded preexisting Britishsterling circulation during1912–1913institution andissue transition; Britishsilver was actuallywithdrawn and repatriated atfacevalue.

Leigh Gardner · The Collapse of the Gold Standard in Africa: Money and Colonialism in the Interwar Period, AfricanStudiesReview66(3), online20December 2022 Citation S795 · Open source ↗

Gardner,AColonialCurrencyRevolution; Hansardanswer12March1923

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

UK Parliament, UnderSecretaryOrmsby-Gore · West Africa(RepatriatedSilver),12March 1923 Citation S796 · Open source ↗

Gardner,AColonialCurrencyRevolution; Hansardanswer12March1923

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1587

SouthAfricanlocal pound reckoning developed from Britishsterling account andredemption practices into a separatelyidentified monetaryunit duringthe wartime/postwar transition; byJanuary1925commissioners explicitly distinguishedtheSouthAfricanunit fromsterling.

Federal Reserve Board · Currency and Banking in South Africa, FederalReserveBulletinNovember 1922 Citation S797 · Open source ↗

1922pp1325–1329;1925p172paragraph11

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

E.W.Kemmerer andG.Vissering;FederalReserveBoard · SouthAfrica and theGoldStandard:ReportofCommissioners, FederalReserveBulletinMarch 1925 Citation S798 · Open source ↗

1922pp1325–1329;1925p172paragraph11

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1592

Sterlingcoin circulation does not establish sterling as the accountunit immediately replaced in 1894. Primary1894ordinance instead makes USDgold the standardforcontracts.

US Treasury, Office of Director of Mint · Monetary Systems of the Principal Countries of the World,1913 Citation S732 · Open source ↗

Printedp22/PDFp22, BritishHonduras, excerptOrdinance31of1894; 1894reform paragraph and earliercirculation chronology

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Central Bank of Belize · History of Belize Currency Citation S104 · Open source ↗

Printedp22/PDFp22, BritishHonduras, excerptOrdinance31of1894; 1894reform paragraph and earliercirculation chronology

Source access and limitations

Do not merge British Honduras/Belize with BCCB automatically.

Apparent timeline discrepancy 1884 notes versus 1894 paperprevents treating everydate as firm.

Supported C1596

The Currency Ordinance defines the Falkland Islands pound and substitutes that local currency into sterling-denominated local obligations and enactments. This establishes the sterling relationship; the earlier independent-unit boundary is not dated by the 1899 note issue.

Falkland Islands Currency Ordinance 1987 · Falkland Islands Currency Ordinance 1987, consolidated 24 July 2025 Citation S893 · Open source ↗

ss 1 commencement note,3,4,8,12,15; PDF pp 3–7

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1601

Bahamianpoundnotes were localsterlinginstruments withinBritishsterling moneyofaccount expresslygoverningcontracts andliabilities.

Bahamas legislature; Ralph Hone revised-laws compilation · British Currency Act 1838, revised laws chapter 300 Citation S729 · Open source ↗

Chapter300 complete substantive section;29November1838; adjacent ch301CurrencyNoteAct1936; Printedpp6,10,23; Appendix1936CurrencyNoteActpp52ff

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Alvin Rabushka / Nassau Institute · History of the Bahamian Monetary Systems 1946–2003 Citation S730 · Open source ↗

Chapter300 complete substantive section;29November1838; adjacent ch301CurrencyNoteAct1936; Printedpp6,10,23; Appendix1936CurrencyNoteActpp52ff

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Inference C1602

The modern locally issued Bermuda pound is sterling accounting, rather than a demonstrated separate principal account unit. British currency replaced the earlier local reckoning in 1842; the1970dollar transition superseded this sterling system.

W. S. B. Woolhouse · The Measures, Weights, & Moneys of All Nations, second edition (1859) Citation S837 · Open source ↗

Woolhouse112; BMA decimalisation passage

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

OCR mangles fraction in ratio, so no exact ratio adopted.

Bermuda Monetary Authority · Bermuda Monetary Authority: Celebrating 50 Years — 20 February 2019 release Citation S202 · Open source ↗

Woolhouse112; BMA decimalisation passage

Source access and limitations

Same release family as S103, not independent corroboration.

By 30 June is a bound, not proof of the exact final tender day or redemption expiry.

Supported C1632

The1927Saorstat pound established a local account unit; future domestic contracts defaulted to its legal currency while prior sterling obligations were not universally converted.

John Kelly, Central Bank of Ireland Quarterly Bulletin, Spring 2003, 89–115 · The Irish Pound: From Origins to EMU Citation S153 · Open source ↗

Printed pp90–92; Section10; compare section4

Source access and limitations

Only pre-1827 assimilation passage adopted; later modern Irish/euro history deferred.

Oireachtas · Currency Act 1927, No32 Citation S770 · Open source ↗

Printed pp90–92; Section10; compare section4

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Indexed substantive section 10 inspected; full official HTML and PDF retrieval inaccessible.

Supported C1637

The Tongan local pound branched from the earlier sterling reckoning,with a separate legally administered exchange regime established in 1935–1936.

Cameron C. Little · The Tongan Currency Board,1935–1989 (2020) Citation S772 · Open source ↗

Little pp48–49,1935Treasury Notes Act and1936Gazette;NRBT1936chronology

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

National Reserve Bank of Tonga · History of the Tongan Pa'anga Citation S240 · Open source ↗

Little pp48–49,1935Treasury Notes Act and1936Gazette;NRBT1936chronology

Supported C1642

CurrencyOrdinance§8 converted covered UKcurrency obligations and statutory references to equivalent local StHelenacurrency, with overseas-payment exception.

Government of Saint Helena · Currency Ordinance 1975, consolidated 2025 Citation S775 · Open source ↗

Sections3–4,8,12,21; commencement header

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1643

Malta pound developed from sterling into an independently legislated local account currency by1968;1972decimalization retained that principal unit.

Joseph Licari · The Malta Currency Board 1949–68 (January 1969) Citation S776 · Open source ↗

Licari pp17–18;Findlay/Wellisz p268;ActXX1971s2

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Ronald Findlay and Stanislaw Wellisz · The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth:Five Small Open Economies, World Bank/OUP 1993 Citation S824 · Open source ↗

Licari pp17–18;Findlay/Wellisz p268;ActXX1971s2

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Parliament of Malta · Central Bank of Malta (Amendment No2) Act, XX of 1971 Citation S823 · Open source ↗

Licari pp17–18;Findlay/Wellisz p268;ActXX1971s2

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1644

Cyprus currency inherited sterling reckoning; by1949 domestic contracts and statutory shilling references were explicitly construed in local legalcurrency and Cyprusshillings.

Government of Cyprus · Currency Law 1949, No13 Citation S785 · Open source ↗

CurrencyLaw1949§§5,8–9,12–13,pp95–97

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Eleni Zapiti / International Numismatic Commission · Modern Coins of Cyprus (1878–2008), Survey of Numismatic Research 2008–2013 Citation S434 · Open source ↗

CurrencyLaw1949§§5,8–9,12–13,pp95–97

Source access and limitations

Scholarly survey by collection author, not separately examined royal decrees.

Gradual unit derivation inferred; exact national-currency separation remains open.

Supported C1645

Australian pound separated from the common sterling account system during1929–1936monetary breakup; earlier local sterling use and notes are continuity observations.

Frank Decker · The Monetary Union of Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom – Its Operation, Fragmentation and Break-up, Economic History Yearbook63(2),2022,375–407 Citation S784 · Open source ↗

Decker2022pp375–379;AGSOpinion1564

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Australian Attorney-General’s Department · Opinion 1564, Australian currency and money of account Citation S777 · Open source ↗

Decker2022pp375–379;AGSOpinion1564

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Reserve Bank of Australia, Bulletin September 2018 · Money in the Australian Economy Citation S93 · Open source ↗

Decker2022pp375–379;AGSOpinion1564

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Early Spanish coin use and later sterling institutions do not prove an unbroken dollar unit.

Supported C1646

1933legislation established distinctive NZcurrency and default local contract denomination, with redemption of earlier local notes into new legalcurrency.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand · Bulletin66(1), March 2003, historical legal currency article Citation S779 · Open source ↗

Printed p48,PDF47; footnote40; Section7

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

New Zealand Parliament · Coinage Act 1933 Citation S778 · Open source ↗

Printed p48,PDF47; footnote40; Section7

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Indexed substantive contract clause inspected; full NZ legislation/NZLII blocked, alternative AustLII URL410.

Supported C1647

Fiji developed a separate local pound from sterling during1929–1933;1933 legislation placed local monetary obligations on their own sterling-exchange basis.

David Tammaro · Evaluating the Fijian board of commissioners of currency, Journal of Economics Library 7(1),2020,39–53 Citation S789 · Open source ↗

Tammaro pp41–43,52; Krus/Schuler pp107–110; Currency Notes Ordinance No6 of1933, effective1November

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) Citation S189 · Open source ↗

Tammaro pp41–43,52; Krus/Schuler pp107–110; Currency Notes Ordinance No6 of1933, effective1November

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Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.

Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.

Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.

Supported C1656

Sterling coins and the sterling rating coexisted with the inherited British West Indian dollar account unit. They do not make sterling its account-unit parent.

H. A. Shannon · The Modern Colonial Sterling Exchange Standard, IMF Staff Papers2(2)(April 1952),318–362 Citation S830 · Open source ↗

Convertibility of Colonial Currencies, first paragraph; Appendix I Trinidad and Tobago(i)

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1710

The Southern Rhodesian account pound developed as a regional continuation of British sterling reckoning, subsequently administered by the Southern Rhodesia Currency Board, Central African Currency Board and federal bank. Contemporary evidence identifies the inherited British pound account system; local coinage, withdrawal of British coins and board note issue separate the regional currency during 1932–1940. This date range records institutional separation, not a claim that a new unit was created by the first local coin.

Herbert M. Bratter / US Department of Commerce · Herbert M. Bratter, The Monetary Use of Silver in 1933, US Department of Commerce, Trade Promotion Series 149 Citation S709 · Open source ↗

1933 report, Rhodesia Southern; Krus/Schuler Southern Rhodesia/Central Africa sections

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Limits: Reports the 1923 monetary law; original Danzig gazette not independently inspected.

Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) Citation S189 · Open source ↗

1933 report, Rhodesia Southern; Krus/Schuler Southern Rhodesia/Central Africa sections

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Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.

Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.

Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.

Supported C196

Bundesbank records 25 May 1966: seven Bahamas shillings per Bahamian dollar.

Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 Citation S98 · Open source ↗

PDF p. 20

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Historical reference, not a 2026 legal-status audit.

Only selected country milestones used.

Supported C1556

British Currency Act expressly keeps local contracts/payments/liabilities in sterling even alongside local-note issue. Preserve Bahamas use as sterling regional observation and dollar conversion.

Bahamas legislature; Ralph Hone revised-laws compilation · British Currency Act 1838, revised laws chapter 300 Citation S729 · Open source ↗

ch 300 entire body, contract/payment/liability clause

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C197

Bundesbank records 6 February 1970: 2.40 Bermudian dollars per Bermuda pound.

Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 Citation S98 · Open source ↗

PDF p. 30

Source access and limitations

Historical reference, not a 2026 legal-status audit.

Only selected country milestones used.

Inference C441

BMA records a dollar launch on 6 February 1970 at eight shillings and fourpence: 12/5 dollars per former pound.

Bermuda Monetary Authority · Bermuda Monetary Authority: Celebrating 50 Years — 20 February 2019 release Citation S202 · Open source ↗

paragraph beginning 1970 saw; reciprocal arithmetic

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Same release family as S103, not independent corroboration.

By 30 June is a bound, not proof of the exact final tender day or redemption expiry.

Supported C1775

Abba's Kentish will specifies burial obligations in pence; Heregyth's endorsement specifies thirteen pounds of pennies and remits a fifteen-pound obligation. This supplies a ninth-century English monetary-account witness within the existing pound/penny profile.

Electronic Sawyer, University of Cambridge · S 1482: Abba and Heregyth, 833–839 Citation S923 · Open source ↗

S1482 Text(a) burial clauses and Text(b) final clause; Officer Unit of account opening

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full Old English transcription, English translation and authenticity catalogue read.

Lawrence H. Officer · Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points (1996), chapter 4, British monetary standard Citation S925 · Open source ↗

S1482 Text(a) burial clauses and Text(b) final clause; Officer Unit of account opening

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1776

Alfred's will distributes pound-denominated monetary bequests to children, household followers and religious beneficiaries, independently confirming late-ninth-century English pound accounting.

Electronic Sawyer, University of Cambridge · S 1507: Will of King Alfred, 873–888 Citation S924 · Open source ↗

S1507 Second Part cash bequests; catalogue dating

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Lawrence H. Officer · Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points (1996), chapter 4, British monetary standard Citation S925 · Open source ↗

S1507 Second Part cash bequests; catalogue dating

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1828

Cuthred’s Eythorne grant values the transferred land at 3,000 pence. This contemporary account transaction supports the existing English penny lineage before the 833–839 pound-of-pennies witness.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 41: Cuthred grant at Eythorne, 805–807 Citation S632 · Open source ↗

S41 opening consideration; MEC8 p.363

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full Latin text, English translation and authenticity catalogue inspected.

Full Latin and English translation inspected, together with manuscript and authenticity notices.

Rory Naismith · Medieval European Coinage, volume 8: Britain and Ireland c.400–1066 (Cambridge, 2017) Citation S944

S41 opening consideration; MEC8 p.363

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Qualified C1829

Beonna’s Swineshead lease fixes consideration at 1,000 shillings and an annual render of hospitality or thirty sicli; heirs remain liable. This extends qualified early-English account evidence.

Electronic Sawyer, University of Cambridge · S 1412: Beonna lease to Cuthbert, 786–796 Citation S942 · Open source ↗

S1412 Latin consideration and heirs clauses; catalogue dating

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

King’s College London, Anglo-Saxon Charters · S 1412 Latin transcription Citation S943 · Open source ↗

S1412 Latin consideration and heirs clauses; catalogue dating

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Complete Latin transcription inspected.

Qualified C1830

Burgred’s London grant describes sixty silver solidi, an earlier one-pound purchase, and annual rent of twelve denarii.

Electronic Sawyer, University of Cambridge · S 208: Burgred grant to Alhhun, 857 Citation S946 · Open source ↗

S208 consideration and annual-rent clauses

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1850

Frankish twelve-penny shilling reckoning entered English usage by the late tenth/early eleventh century, alongside older four- and five-penny shillings. This was subdivision transmission within an existing English penny system. Late-tenth-century uptake is reconstructed; Byrhtferth’s dated witness is 1011–c.1020. Four witnesses cluster in reformed monastic contexts; nationwide simultaneous adoption is not claimed.

Rory Naismith · Medieval European Coinage, volume 8: Britain and Ireland c.400–1066 (Cambridge, 2017) Citation S944

Appendix2 pp.363–364, table23; glossary pp.386–387

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1851

Retain the existing English pound/penny identity and distinguish dated penny accounting from dated pound accounting.

Electronic Sawyer, Kings College London / University of Cambridge · S 41: Cuthred grant at Eythorne, 805–807 Citation S632 · Open source ↗

S41 consideration; MEC8 p.363

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full Latin text, English translation and authenticity catalogue inspected.

Full Latin and English translation inspected, together with manuscript and authenticity notices.

Rory Naismith · Medieval European Coinage, volume 8: Britain and Ireland c.400–1066 (Cambridge, 2017) Citation S944

S41 consideration; MEC8 p.363

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1961

Hong Kong instituted a sterling anchor in 1935. Postwar tables document its continuation and 1967 parity change before the switch to USD.

Hong Kong Monetary Authority · Monetary Systems in Hong Kong’s History Citation S453 · Open source ↗

Printed pp.7 and 9; PDF indices 3 and 5

Hong Kong Government / Hong Kong Monetary Authority · Exchange Value of the Hong Kong Dollar, Appendix 18 Citation S1019 · Open source ↗

Part A, dated entries 18 December 1946 through 17 October 1983

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Cross-rates in the table do not create additional anchors. 1946 is a witnessed postwar regime, not its original founding.

Supported C1964

The ECCA episode used a sterling peg before the EC dollar’s 1976 switch to USD.

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank · Your Finances, Your Future — June 2012 Citation S1020 · Open source ↗

Printed p.5; PDF index 4, ECCA and 1976 paragraphs

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1965 is the beginning of the reviewed ECCA episode, not the first sterling linkage or a new account identity.

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank · Your Finances, Your Future — July 2009 Citation S1021 · Open source ↗

Printed p.6; PDF index 5, The peg — 7 July 1976

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Institutional explanation quotes selected provisions; not a complete legal-text audit.

Supported C2094

The Royal Mint Museum explicitly traces English reckoning to the Frankish kingdom. This supports transmission of an account system; it does not date a single founding reform. Hines's four-penny shilling in the 930s and Naismith's account of Offa's Frankish coin models prevent a uniform twelve-penny shilling or an exact Offa conversion from being projected across Anglo-Saxon England.

Royal Mint Museum · Pounds, Shillings and Pence (undated) Citation S1100 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency; pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159; pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

John Hines, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), pp.153–173; DOI 10.1017/S0003581510000089 · Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England: scillingas, sceattas and pæningas Citation S497 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency; pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159; pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

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Regional shillings differ.

Proposed ancient metal equivalences are interpretations, not a dated succession chain.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency; pp.153–155, table 1 and notes 9–11; pp.158–159; pp.76–77 and chronology discussion

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Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Qualified C2097

English penny–pound reckoning has Frankish account ancestry: the Royal Mint Museum explicitly describes transmission of the reckoning system. Admit a qualified, compressed ancestry link, without identifying a single founder, exact adoption date, conversion rate or uniform early shilling. The seventh century through William I is a research envelope, not a dated observation or a claim that transmission lasted this whole period.

Royal Mint Museum · Pounds, Shillings and Pence (undated) Citation S1100 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

John Hines, The Antiquaries Journal 90 (2010), pp.153–173; DOI 10.1017/S0003581510000089 · Units of account in gold and silver in seventh-century England: scillingas, sceattas and pæningas Citation S497 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency

Source access and limitations

Regional shillings differ.

Proposed ancient metal equivalences are interpretations, not a dated succession chain.

Rory Naismith, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010), 76–106 · The Coinage of Offa Revisited Citation S521 · Open source ↗

The origins of pre-decimal coinage, paragraphs 1–2; distinguish tentative transmission date from William I's later weight consistency

Source access and limitations

Targets are approximate standards, not identical measured weights of every surviving penny.

Qualified C2103

The pound Scots is treated as a qualified regional branch of sterling reckoning: the Scottish National Dictionary identifies an account pound initially equal to sterling, and the National Records of Scotland describes subsequent divergence of the Scottish and English currencies through debasement. This is an inference of account differentiation, not an inference from shared names or an exchange rate alone. The fourteenth-to-sixteenth-century range describes the broad differentiation discussed by the sources, not an exact founding reform; earlier Scottish accounting and the immediate separation date remain unresolved.

National Records of Scotland, Scotland’s People · Dates, numbers and sums of money (undated) Citation S1101 · Open source ↗

Sums of money, paragraphs 1–2: differentiation, 1560 rate and survival after 1707; Sense 2: account pound initially equal to sterling, subsequent differentiation; dated quotations

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Scottish National Dictionary / Dictionaries of the Scots Language · Pund, n.1, sense 2 (1968; supplement 2005) Citation S1102 · Open source ↗

Sums of money, paragraphs 1–2: differentiation, 1560 rate and survival after 1707; Sense 2: account pound initially equal to sterling, subsequent differentiation; dated quotations

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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