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The pound was the official currency of Jamaica between 1840 and 1969. It circulated as a mixture of sterling coinage and locally issued coins and banknotes and was always equal to the pound sterling. The Jamaican pound was also used in the Cayman and Turks and Caicos Islands.
The 1825 order-in-council was largely a failure because it made sterling silver coinage legal tender at the unrealistic rate in relation to the Spanish dollar of $1 = 4 shillings and 4 pence. In 1838, remedial legislation was introduced for the British West Indies , with a new and more realistic rate of $1 = 4s 2d.
The new Jamaican dollar (and the Cayman Islands dollar), differed from all the other dollars in the British West Indies in that it was essentially a half-pound sterling. All the other dollars in the vicinity either began on the US dollar unit, in the case of Belize, Bermuda, and the Bahamas, or the Spanish dollar unit in the case of the Eastern ...
Barbadian dollar: BBD: Central Bank of Barbados: 2.00 BBD = 1.00 USD Caribbean Netherlands: United States dollar: USD: De Nederlandsche Bank (monetary authority) Federal Reserve Bank (U.S. dollar) float Cayman Islands: Cayman Islands dollar: KYD: Cayman Islands Monetary Authority: 1.00 KYD = 1.20 USD Cuba: Cuban peso: CUP: Central Bank of Cuba ...
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The exchange rate of $4.80 = £1 sterling (equivalent to the old $1 = 4s 2d) continued right into up until 1976 for the new Eastern Caribbean dollar. For a wider outline of the history of currency in the region see Currencies of the British West Indies .
In 1949, the British government formalized the dollar system of accounts in British Guiana and the Eastern Caribbean territories by introducing the British West Indies dollar (BWI$) at the already existing conversion rate of $4.80 per pound sterling (or $1 = 4 shillings 2 pence). It was one of the many experimental political and economic ...
However, excluding the pegged (fixed exchange rate) ... Sterling £ GBP Penny: ... Jamaican dollar $ JMD Cent: 100