Evidence coverage: 1894–1894. 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.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Sterlingcoin circulation does not establish sterling as the accountunit immediately replaced in1894. Primary1894ordinance instead makes USDgold the standardforcontracts.
C986, C1592New British Honduras dollar accounting followed15October1894replacement, with prices and wages adjusting from former sols.
Sources and qualifications →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.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
New British Honduras dollar accounting followed15October1894replacement, with prices and wages adjusting from former sols.
C1488Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Inference: 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.
C986Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Belize’s central bank dates local government dollar notes and a gold-basis reform to 1894.
1894 section
Do not merge British Honduras/Belize with BCCB automatically.
Apparent timeline discrepancy 1884 notes versus 1894 paperprevents treating everydate as firm.
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.
1800s: sterling basis from 1825; gold-basis dollar notes under Ordinance 31 of 1894
Do not merge British Honduras/Belize with BCCB automatically.
Apparent timeline discrepancy 1884 notes versus 1894 paperprevents treating everydate as firm.
New British Honduras dollar accounting followed15October1894replacement, with prices and wages adjusting from former sols.
Cundall20–21; Congressional Record3757
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Cites colonial annual report; not full ordinance transcription.
Cundall20–21; Congressional Record3757
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Sterlingcoin circulation does not establish sterling as the accountunit immediately replaced in 1894. Primary1894ordinance instead makes USDgold the standardforcontracts.
Printedp22/PDFp22, BritishHonduras, excerptOrdinance31of1894; 1894reform paragraph and earliercirculation chronology
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Printedp22/PDFp22, BritishHonduras, excerptOrdinance31of1894; 1894reform paragraph and earliercirculation chronology
Do not merge British Honduras/Belize with BCCB automatically.
Apparent timeline discrepancy 1884 notes versus 1894 paperprevents treating everydate as firm.
The British Honduras dollar replaced the locally used Guatemalan dollar or sol reckoning in October1894. Contemporary reports record wages and property prices passing from sols into the new gold-dollar accounting.
Cundall20–21; Congressional Record3757
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Cites colonial annual report; not full ordinance transcription.
Cundall20–21; Congressional Record3757
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.