Evidence coverage: 1840–1969. 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.
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Jamaica adopted British currency as the basis of its pound system. Spanish doubloons remained a legal-tender exception until 1901.
C944Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
BOJ dates Jamaica’s decimal currency to 8 September 1969 on a ten-shilling dollar basis.
Decimalization
Historical evidence only; current legal status and every intervening amendment are not inferred.
Jamaica adopted British currency as the basis of its pound system. Spanish doubloons remained a legal-tender exception until 1901.
Spanish dollars; British colonial coinage; government notes
Historical evidence only; current legal status and every intervening amendment are not inferred.