Evidence coverage: 1914–2008. 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.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Malta pound is the existing principal statutory unit; decimalization changes subdivisions and covered contract/account fractions.
Sources and qualifications →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.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Malta pound is the existing principal statutory unit; decimalization changes subdivisions and covered contract/account fractions.
C1502Maltese pound was renamed Maltese lira.
1 Maltese pound — pre-1983 name per 1 Maltese liraV0184 · Maltese pound was renamed Maltese lira.
C872Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
1 EUR = 0.429300 MTL. Malta: euro adoption 2008-01-01; cash 2008-01-01. Regulation 974/98 substitutes the euro for each participating state’s currency on its adoption date; cash changeover is separately defined.
C690, C691, C646Malta: euro adoption 2008-01-01; cash 2008-01-01.
C691Corrected 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. Current evidence: Malta pound developed from sterling into an independently legislated local account currency by1968;1972decimalization retained that principal unit.
C870Malta decimalized while retaining the pound as its unit.
C871Maltese pound was renamed Maltese lira.
C872Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
1 EUR = 0.429300 MTL.
art.1, Malta currency row; exact decimal retained
Article 2’s original 1999 commencement does not backdate later-added currencies.
Country-specific dates come from the separate 974/98 annex.
Malta: euro adoption 2008-01-01; cash 2008-01-01.
Annex, Malta row; arts.2–3 provide substitution
Consolidation, not an as-made 1998 text.
National short cash-withdrawal periods and every accession amendment were not individually audited.
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.
PDF pp. 14–15: British legal tender from 1825; Order coins withdrawn by 1886; 1972 change
Printed p. 135: pre-1968 currency notes; 16 May 1972 decimalization retaining pound
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
Malta decimalized while retaining the pound as its unit.
Printed p. 135: pre-1968 currency notes; 16 May 1972 decimalization retaining pound
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
Maltese pound was renamed Maltese lira.
Malta, PDF p. 158
Historical reference, not a 2026 legal-status audit.
Only selected country milestones used.
Malta pound is the existing principal statutory unit; decimalization changes subdivisions and covered contract/account fractions.
Section2 replacing37
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Malta pound developed from sterling into an independently legislated local account currency by1968;1972decimalization retained that principal unit.
Licari pp17–18;Findlay/Wellisz p268;ActXX1971s2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Licari pp17–18;Findlay/Wellisz p268;ActXX1971s2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Licari pp17–18;Findlay/Wellisz p268;ActXX1971s2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Regulation 974/98 substitutes the euro for each participating state’s currency on its adoption date; cash changeover is separately defined.
arts.1, 1a, 2–3
Consolidation, not an as-made 1998 text.
National short cash-withdrawal periods and every accession amendment were not individually audited.