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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 exchange rate of $4.80 = £1 sterling (equivalent to the old $1 = 4s 2d) continued until 1976 for the new Eastern Caribbean dollar. [ 1 ] For a wider outline of the history of currency in the region see Currencies of the British West Indies .
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 ...
Manx pound £ (none) Penny: 100 Sterling £ GBP Penny: 100 Israel: Israeli new shekel ₪ ILS Agora: 100 Italy: Euro € EUR Cent: 100 Jamaica: Jamaican dollar $ JMD Cent: 100 Japan: Japanese yen ¥ JPY Sen [C] 100 Jersey: Jersey pound £ (none) Penny: 100 Sterling £ GBP Penny: 100 Jordan: Jordanian dinar: JD JOD Piastre [H] 100 Kazakhstan ...
The Cayman Islands dollar is an offshoot of the Jamaican dollar, which is essentially a half pound sterling. Jamaica followed the pattern of South Africa , Australia , and New Zealand in using the half-pound unit as opposed to the pound as the unit of account when it adopted the decimal system.
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 .
The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression lībra pondō, in which lībra is a noun meaning 'pound' and pondō is an adverb meaning 'by weight'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The currency's symbol is ' £ ' , a stylised form of the blackletter 'L' ( L {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}} ) (from libra ), crossed to indicate abbreviation.
The UK government devalued the pound sterling in November 1967 from £1 = $2.80 to £1 = $2.40. This was not welcomed in many parts of the sterling area, and, unlike in the 1949 devaluation, many sterling area countries did not devalue their currencies at the same time. This was the beginning of the end for the sterling area.