Evidence coverage: 1825–1973. 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.
ECCA succession in its participating territory is an issuer/jurisdiction event, not another dollar unit. Source review establishes a continuing account unit; local issues and naming epochs remain profile evidence.
These stages belong to this profile, not separate branches.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Dated changes of monetary basis; founding ancestry remains above.
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 →The East Caribbean dollar switched its anchor to USD on 7 July 1976; the ECCB confirmed the unchanged parity in 2021.
7 July 1976; confirmed through July 2021
2.70 XCD per USD.
Fixed-rate monetary policy supported by pooled foreign reserves and the Council’s parity authority.
No new account identity; present status is not inferred from a 2021 release.
No ending established here; this is not a claim of current operation. Excluded from ancestry, sibling relationships and depth.
Evidence and relationship details Register entry →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, C1656The inherited regional dollar account unit retained its identity under the1838sterling rating.
Sources and qualifications →The British West Indian dollar already existed as a principal unit before the regional currency-board reforms; the1946conference proposed retaining it as chief unit.
Sources and qualifications →Barbados government accounts moved to dollar reckoning from1April1949 under Public Accounts Act1of1949.
Sources and qualifications →The Barbados colonial-dollar profile represents a territorial administration of the existing British West Indian dollar, continued as the principal unit under regional currency arrangements. The1951transfer of note issue does not create an additional currency identity. Primary contemporary ministerial evidence explicitly identifies the proposed common principal unit as an existing unit. Under the project's unit-of-account identity rule, the instrument/issuer boundary should be merged, while account observations and institutional history remain. This supersedes the earlier unresolved classification; not a parity-only merger.
Sources and qualifications →Barbados governmentaccounts changefromsterling to dollarsandcents effective1April1949 underPublicAccountsAct1.
Sources and qualifications →The Barbados colonial-dollar profile represents a territorial administration of the existing British West Indian dollar, continued as the principal unit under regional currency arrangements. The1951transfer of note issue does not create an additional currency identity. Primary contemporary ministerial evidence explicitly identifies the proposed common principal unit as an existing unit. Under the project's unit-of-account identity rule, the instrument/issuer boundary should be merged, while account observations and institutional history remain. This supersedes the earlier unresolved classification; not a parity-only merger.
Sources and qualifications →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.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
The inherited regional dollar account unit retained its identity under the1838sterling rating.
C1506The British West Indian dollar already existed as a principal unit before the regional currency-board reforms; the1946conference proposed retaining it as chief unit.
C1516Barbados government accounts moved to dollar reckoning from1April1949 under Public Accounts Act1of1949.
C1517Barbados governmentaccounts changefromsterling to dollarsandcents effective1April1949 underPublicAccountsAct1.
C1473ECCA-member area only.
C189Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
ECCB’s report dates ECCA’s succession to BCCB and its first notes to 1965; ECCB was established in 1983 and issued notes in 1984.
C189ECCB’s report dates ECCA’s succession to BCCB and its first notes to 1965; ECCB was established in 1983 and issued notes in 1984.
C189ECCB’s report dates ECCA’s succession to BCCB and its first notes to 1965; ECCB was established in 1983 and issued notes in 1984.
C189Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0401. The independently sourced Spanish-dollar ancestry replaces the earlier mixed-circulation inference. Current evidence: 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.
C983BCCB notes took over the note circulation of Barbados, British Guiana and Trinidad in 1951. The Barbados system is one documented input, not the only one.
C984Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
ECCB’s report dates ECCA’s succession to BCCB and its first notes to 1965; ECCB was established in 1983 and issued notes in 1984.
p. 145
Publisher-hosted report used; blocked main-site history and unrelated proxy copies not evidence.
ECCB records EC$4.80 per pound before the July 1976 switch to EC$2.70 per U.S. dollar.
p. 145
Publisher-hosted report used; blocked main-site history and unrelated proxy copies not evidence.
Barbados’s central bank describes BCCB/ECCA predecessors and national banknotes from 1973.
Past banknotes chronology
Historical evidence only; current legal status and every intervening amendment are not inferred.
Bundesbank dates Trinidad and Tobago’s 1:1 dollar changeover to 14 December 1964.
PDF p. 245
Historical reference, not a 2026 legal-status audit.
Only selected country milestones used.
Bank of Guyana dates national notes replacing BCCB notes to 15 November 1965 and national coins to mid-1967.
Early bank history
Historical evidence only; current legal status and every intervening amendment are not inferred.
BCCB notes took over the note circulation of Barbados, British Guiana and Trinidad in 1951. The Barbados system is one documented input, not the only one.
PDF page 2: sterling circulation, mixed dollar notes, BCCB succession in 1951
Regional succession compressed at family level; additional territorial issues remain expandable.
No universal exchange rate inferred.
The inherited regional dollar account unit retained its identity under the1838sterling rating.
Convertibility of Colonial Currencies, first paragraph
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The British West Indian dollar already existed as a principal unit before the regional currency-board reforms; the1946conference proposed retaining it as chief unit.
First ministerial answer,5June1946
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Barbados government accounts moved to dollar reckoning from1April1949 under Public Accounts Act1of1949.
Printed93
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The Barbados colonial-dollar profile represents a territorial administration of the existing British West Indian dollar, continued as the principal unit under regional currency arrangements. The1951transfer of note issue does not create an additional currency identity.
Hansard423cc1994–1995, first ministerial answer; Armstrong93,110–112
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Hansard423cc1994–1995, first ministerial answer; Armstrong93,110–112
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The British West Indian dollar continued the Spanish silver dollar as principal monetary unit in the Eastern Caribbean; its1838sterling rating did not replace that dollar accounting.
Convertibility of Colonial Currencies, first paragraph; Appendix I Trinidad and Tobago(i)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
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.
PDF page 2: sterling circulation, mixed dollar notes, BCCB succession in 1951
Regional succession compressed at family level; additional territorial issues remain expandable.
No universal exchange rate inferred.
Barbados governmentaccounts changefromsterling to dollarsandcents effective1April1949 underPublicAccountsAct1.
Printedp93
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
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.
Convertibility of Colonial Currencies, first paragraph; Appendix I Trinidad and Tobago(i)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The ECCA episode used a sterling peg before the EC dollar’s 1976 switch to USD.
Printed p.5; PDF index 4, ECCA and 1976 paragraphs
1965 is the beginning of the reviewed ECCA episode, not the first sterling linkage or a new account identity.
Printed p.6; PDF index 5, The peg — 7 July 1976
Institutional explanation quotes selected provisions; not a complete legal-text audit.
The East Caribbean dollar switched its anchor to USD on 7 July 1976; the ECCB confirmed the unchanged parity in 2021.
Printed p.6; PDF index 5, The peg — 7 July 1976
Institutional explanation quotes selected provisions; not a complete legal-text audit.
13 July 2021 release, opening three paragraphs
Confirms 2021 operation; no independent October 2026 status finding.