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: 1969–1972; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Historical evidence only; current legal status and every intervening amendment are not inferred.
Inference C463
BOJ’s statutory extracts define a 100-cent dollar and show the 1969 amendment; later amended call-in provisions do not by themselves establish the 1969 withdrawal schedule.
Later amended withdrawal provisions must not be treated as 1969 law.
Decimal Currency Act itself remains inaccessible in this pass.
Inference C464
Ministry Paper 7 explains the ten-shilling dollar recommendation and abandons the earlier 2½-cent coin/halfpenny proposal; policy proposals must not be graphed as enacted currencies.
Edward Seaga, Minister of Finance and Planning; National Library of Jamaica · Ministry Paper No.7, 20 March 1969: Decimal CurrencyCitation S209 · Open source ↗
both pages, especially earlier proposal and revised recommendations
Source access and limitations
Proposal and explanation, not enacted law; explicitly abandons an earlier coin/subdivision proposal.
Supported C945
Cayman currency replaced Jamaican dollars at equal unit value during the 1972 changeover. Jamaican cash retained legal tender through 31 August.