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TO. S.J. BRIDGES

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UNITED KINGDOM 5th MARCH 1983

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HONG KONG & GENERAL DEPT.

Dear Mr. Bridges,

currencies

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reply and the enclosed booklet

you once again for your I have however noticed two entries in the book

on the dependencies. which it may be in your interest to check up on. It concerns the currencies of St. Helena and Gibralter.

The Financial Times' lists these dependencies as having their own separate heard from other sources that

en par with 'Sterling and I have

the unit of currency in St. Helena is the St. Helena pound which has parity with the found Sterling. currency is governed by the St. Helena currency ordinance of 1975 which applies also to Ascension by Ascension application Ordinance 1976" Tristan da bunha however still uses Sterling.

Now the extent to which the St. Helena currency and Sterling constitute separate currencies is a point of interest because they are more than simply on par.

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